I’m your man – My View by Robyn Sassen and other writers

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JUST me and my robot: Alma (Maren Eggert) and Tom (Dan Stevens) in ‘I’m your man’. Photograph courtesy rottentomatoes.com

IF YOU WERE a god and had every possible human proclivity at your fingertips, on a drawing board, which ones would you choose to embody your most perfect partner? Beautiful eyes? An ability to laugh? A talent for the spontaneous? Large feet? This is roughly the premise of the AI (artificial intelligence) romance story I’m your man, which features on this year’s European Film Festival; designed to be hybrid, it offers limited screenings and online access in Johannesburg and Cape Town, between 13 and 23 October, Mbabane between 21 and 23 October and Maseru, between 28 and 30 October.

Alma (Maren Eggert) is a scientist to her fingertips. She isn’t married, has no dependants and is willing to go the extra mile in the name of experiment, for the price of finalising her study into ancient cuneiform script. Even join an AI lonely hearts club, where…

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