Drained (2006)
"O Cheiro do Ralo" (original title)

A pawn shop proprietor buys used goods from desperate locals--as much to play perverse power games as for his own livelihood, but when the perfect rump and a backed-up toilet enter his life, he loses all control.

Director:

Heitor Dhalia

Writers:

Marçal Aquino, Heitor Dhalia,

Stars:

Selton Mello, Paula Braun, Paulo Alves

11 wins & 15 nominations.

Cast

Credited cast:
Selton Mello	...	Lourenço
Paula Braun	...	Garconete
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Paulo Alves	...	PM 1
Susana Alves	...	Cadela In Pink
Roberto Audio	...	Homem da Flauta
Flavio Bauraqui	...	Homem da Caixa de Música
Boi	...	Mendigo
Alice Braga	...	Garçonete Dois
Calico	...	Homem da Perna
Jorge Cerruti	...	Homem do Olho de Vidro
Milhem Cortaz	...	Encanador
Wolney de Assis	...	Homem da Caneta
Estevan	...	Homem do Autógrafo
Abrahão Farc	...	Homem dos Soldadinhos
André Frateschi	...	Homem do Vodu

Storyline

A pawn shop proprietor buys used goods from desperate locals--as much to play perverse power games as for his own livelihood, but when the perfect rump and a backed-up toilet enter his life, he loses all control.

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Plot Keywords:

toilet | brazilian | bargaining | bare butt | glass eye | 

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Genres:

Comedy

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Details

Official Sites:

Official site [br]

Country:

Brazil

Language:

Portuguese

Release Date:

23 March 2007 (Brazil)

Also Known As:

Drained

Box Office

Budget:

BRL 300,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Primo Filmes, Branca Filmes, Geração Conteúdo

Technical Specs

Runtime:

112 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Connections

References Le Mans (1971)

User Reviews

Cinema and its art to "let be involved"...

Most of the times, when we see a movie, we do not see it, we not feel it like a vivid fact, but we see it as a thing that is "out of us", apart of what we experiment each second of our lives.

Cinema is life, vivid experience, you and it, dialog, and not a standard of stimuli that we feel the necessity of fitting and of comparing, it is there to be lived!

Yesterday I began to realize better that, while watching "O cheiro do ralo" of Heitor Dhalia. The movie is brilliant, and the character of Selton Mello even more. Cynical, arrogant, shy and lonely. Lost in the middle of so many objects, which serves to try to provide this 'lack', the lack of something, of feeling, with the other, of contact..."I do not like you and I never liked nobody". The obsession, the money, the ' assumption controls of everything and of all '. Before so many losses he buys, it is the only weapon that he has.

It makes us think about all the nuances that wrap the human life, in all the bizarres thoughts that " we want not to have thought ", or for shame, for fear or for disapproval. It makes us understand that the life is desire, want of living, of feeling, of " being there ".

"O cheiro do ralo" manages with expertise to expose the strange and bizarre daily life of a character that is there on the screen, which is very different from us, but on the same time he manages to say very much of ourselves.

To laugh .... to think ... to get emotional ...to get bothersome ... for me this is life!