Arguments in Favor of Love

After winning the Grand Prize at Cannes’ Critics’ Week in 2018 with the satirical feature Diamantino, Arguments in Favor of Love is, according to the filmmaker himself, his most personal film to date. A meditation on contemporary existential questions, it features ghosts trapped in endless conversations about personal conflicts—genetic tests, pain, love—set in a flooded and burning digital wasteland of a dystopian, post-apocalyptic future. These intimate dialogues unfold against the backdrop of today’s collective anxieties. A melancholic work, the film’s extraordinary animation of its otherworldly characters heightens the realism of the couple’s arguments, drawn from real-life experiences and voiced by Portuguese actress Inês Castel-Branco and American actor Jack Haven, with music composed by the filmmaker himself.