AUTOPSY OF LOVE

AUTOPSIA DE UN AMOR

By Arturo PRINS

MONOCONNAVAJAS FILMS - as PROD / FIN

Biography - Completed 2014

An artist, emotionally numb after his girlfriend broke-up with him, goes around in despair, questioning different people, until he finally reaches a liberating conclusión.

Festivals
& Awards

World Premiere Philippines Film Festival (2014) 2019
Official Selection
Section & awards Premios GOYA (2016) 2019
Main Competition
Cannes Marché du Film 2024
    • Year of production
    • 2014
    • Genres
    • Biography, Documentary, Romance
    • Countries
    • SPAIN, ARGENTINA, THAILAND
    • Languages
    • SPANISH
    • Duration
    • 115 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Arturo PRINS
    • Writer(s)
    • Arturo PRINS
    • Producer(s)
    • Arturo PRINS (MONOCONNAVAJA FILMS)
    • Synopsis
    • An artist, after being abandoned by his partner, begins a desperate fight to get her back. He documents month after month his feelings by recording himself at his worst, but the person he loves never returns, leaving a permanent void. The protagonist needs answers to move forward, he goes out into the street to look for them. He records his friends, his parents, a civil lawyer, a teenager, a psychologist, a priest and strangers. After recording for eleven years and interviewing the French philosopher Michel Onfray, the artist offers the viewer a range of reflections. Just like a surgeon performs an autopsy, he finds out why a couple's love always dies.

      PLOT
      This documentary explores, based on the loss of a relationship, and why our models of love are currently faltering.
      A desperate and obsessive man over a loss.
      A psychologist, young people, adults, elderly couples, single couples, married couples, and a priest analyze and autopsy the couples' failures.
      Some acidic and disillusioned muses, who speak the language of love, pepper the documentary, suggesting new erotic proposals, dismantling old models, supported by fragments of Michel Onfray essay, "Theory of a body in love, a Solar Erotica".

      If they left us, this documentary gives clues to recover lost love.