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Drained

6.4

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Original title

O Cheiro do Ralo

Year

2006

Running time

105 min.

Country

Brazil

Director

Heitor Dhalia

Screenwriter

Marçal Aquino, Heitor Dhalia. Novel: Lourenço Mutarelli

Cast

Music

Apollo

Cinematography

José Roberto Eliezer

Producer

Branca Filmes, Tristero Filmes, Geração Conteúdo

Genre

Comedy | Comedy-Drama

Synopsis

A young pawnshop owner becomes obsessed with his office’s backed-up drain, and the derrière of a young waitress, in this daring look at the perversity and madness found within us all. A Taxi Driver for the office set, Drained gives a refreshing Brazilian spin on the traditional literary anti-hero (think Dostoevsky’s Underground Man, or the works of Louis-Ferdinand Céline) as he browbeats customers, alienates friends, and tests the limits of the acceptable. Reigning over a kingdom of other people’s junk, the handsome Lourenço runs his pawnshop like a little Napoleon, bemusedly haggling with a procession of the desperate, the addicted, and the addled. His reign is disrupted by one thing: that horrid smell from his office toilet. But it’s an odor Lourenço starts to revel in, even as he takes refuge in the beautiful vision of a young waitress next door; more specifically, the beautiful vision of her backside. “Life isn’t easy,” Lourenço keeps repeating, but it gets even harder (and a whole lot stranger) as his world gradually boils down to little more than his job, the nauseating smell, and that derrière.

Awards: 2007: Sundance Film Festival: Nominated for Grand Jury Prize - World Cinema

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Drained

2006

Heitor Dhalia

6.4

(197)