O Cheiro do Ralo (2006)

Director:

Heitor Dhalia

Writers:

Marçal Aquino (writer)
Heitor Dhalia (writer)

Release Date:

23 March 2007 (Brazil)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot:

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. |

Plot Keywords:

Based On Novel

Awards:

11 wins & 11 nominations

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
Luciano Gatti	...	Homem do Livro
Waldir Grillo	...	Homem do Ancinho
Fabiana Guglielmetti	...	Noiva
Lorena Lobato	...	Mulher Casada
Sílvia Lourenço	...	Viciada
Fernando Macário	...	Entregador de Pizza
Leonardo Medeiros	...	Jesus Kid
Martha Meola	...	Secretária
Hossein Minussi	...	Encanador
Morelli	...	Homem do Violino
Morgani	...	Homem Abertura
Ariel Moshe	...	Homem das Cédulas
Alvaro Muniz	...	Encanador
Lourenço Mutarelli	...	Segurança
Dionísio Neto	...	Homem dos Discos
Nivaldo	...	Homem da Gaiola
Paulo César Peréio	...	Pai da Noiva (voice)
Zé Pineiro	...	Homem do Revólver
Augusto Pompeo	...	Homem do Faqueiro
Negro Rico	...	PM 2
Xico Sá	...	Homem do Gênio da Garrafa
Mário Schoemberger	...	Homem do Relógio
Gustavo Trestini	...	Tenente
Tobias Vai Vai	...	Caixa da Lanchonete
Pedro Vicente	...	Homem dos Livros
Hugo Villavicenzio	...	Homem do Gramofone

Also Known As:

Drained (International: English title)

Runtime:

112 min

Country:

Brazil

Language:

Portuguese

Colour:

Colour

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Argentina:13

Company:

Branca Filmes

Movie Connections:

References Le Mans (1971)

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!