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GOETHE FILMS @ TIFF LightboxWHEN GERMAN FILMMAKERS DO COMEDY, IT GETS WILD AND WEIRD FAST - AS THREE INTERNATIONAL HIT FILMS WITH STAR CASTS PROVE.
I’M YOUR MAN (GERMANY 2021, 2H1M)
BY MARIA SCHRADER, WITH MAREN EGGERT, DAN STEVENS, SANDRA HÜLLER AND MORE
Alma is a scientist at the famous Pergamon Museum in Berlin. In order to obtain research funds for her studies, she accepts an offer to participate in an extraordinary experiment. For three weeks, she is to live with a humanoid robot whose artificial intelligence has been designed to allow it to morph into that of her ideal life partner. Enter Tom, a machine in (handsome) human form, created to make her happy. What ensues is a tragicomic tale that explores notions of love, longing and what makes us human.
The multi-talented Maria Schrader, winner of a Silver Bear for acting and an accomplished filmmaker, has adapted a story by Emma Braslavsky and infused it with the suggestive forces of cinema. Displaying a deep understanding of acting chemistry, she aptly casts and directs her leading pair, who make an amusingly unnatural, failed match. But what more fertile terrain can there be than to study the frisson between analysis and feeling? After all, poetry can make use of left-brain logic too. (Berlinale)
10 international awards & 15 nominations
"With a thought-provoking concept brought to humorous life by a pair of well-matched leads, I'm Your Man is an AI rom-com whose intelligence is anything but artificial." – Rotten Tomatoes
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GOETHE FILMS is celebrating 70 years of German Films, Germany's film marketing agency and a strong partner of the Goethe-Institut worldwide, with this program out of a selection of the best and most successful German films over the past seven decades by German film expert Alfred Holighaus.
Part of the Goethe-Institut focus on German film
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TIFF Lightbox Theatre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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