So Alma sceptically takes home this dashing humanoid geisha: Tom, played with elegant, fluent German by Dan Stevens. The arrangements are made: Tom, who is still in development, will live with Alma for three weeks, during which she is tasked with taking him for a spin as her.

She is persuaded by her boss to be a guinea-pig for a new hi-tech scheme: she will road-test a male “companion” robot, programmed to be infinitely considerate and obliging, which will attend to all her emotional and indeed physical needs. In a deal to secure research funds, archaeologist Alma (Maren Eggert) reluctantly agrees to test-run humanoid love robot Tom (Dan Stevens), who has been tailored to her particular taste. Eggert plays Alma, an archaeologist with an unhappy and frustrating personal life. In order to obtain funds for her research, Alma (Maren Eggert) is persuaded to participate in an extraordinary study. We are in a world of the near-future (and the city of Berlin itself is certainly very plausible as its location). But I was disappointed with a film whose crises and dilemmas seem laborious and essentially predictable it does not fully work as sci-fi or satire or comedy. Enter Tom (Dan Stevens), a machine in human form created solely to make her happy. For three weeks, she must live with a humanoid robot tailored to her character and needs, whose artificial intelligence is designed to be the perfect life partner for her. Directed by Maria Schrader, this was a crowd-pleasing favourite at the Berlin film festival earlier this year and its star, Maren Eggert, won the festival’s new gender-neutral best leading performance prize. I’m Your Man review domestic bliss with a humanoid. Alma (Maren Eggert) is a scientist coerced into participating in an extraordinary study in order to obtain research funds for her work.

Im your man 2021