O Cheiro do Ralo is a movie based in a novel by Lourenço Mutarelli

Lourenço Mutarelli

Lourenço Mutarelli is a Brazilian comic book artist who became well regarded in the Brazilian underground comics scene in the late 1980s and 1990s....

 directed by Heitor Dhalia

Heitor Dhalia

Heitor Dhalia is a Brazilian film director and screenwriter. He has directed five films since 1988. His film, À Deriva, competed in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:...

, starring Selton Mello

Selton Mello

Selton Figueiredo Melo is a Brazilian actor. He works on TV, movies and theater. He also produces and directs movies and videoclips...

. The film was produced by Geração Conteúdo, Primo Filmes

Primo Filmes

Led by Joana Mariani, Matias Mariani and Marcelo Monteiro, Primo Filmes has produced the feature-films Drained , Fabricating Tom Zé and 3.5 Overpass...

 & RT Features.

Plot

Lourenço is a lonely figure, who buys used goods from people going through hard times. His profession has made him insensitive to his seller's conditions or personal stories. Lourenço's lack of emotions makes him deal with the world as a collection of objects to be bought. His main pleasure has become to conduct some perverse power games with his sellers. The planned life of Lourenço is interrupted when he falls in love with a waitress's butt. As any other object his main desire is to own it. The movie conduct us through Lourenço's mind using his as a narrator while his desire for power grows. The name of the movie ("Drain's Smell") comes from an insistent bad odor that comes from Lourenço's office restroom. It represents the self-awareness of Lourenço's condition, which he unsuccessfully keeps trying to hide.

Festival career

• Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival
  • Best Latin American Film (FEPRASCI award)
  • Special Jury Award
  • Best Actor (Selton Mello
    Selton Mello
    Selton Figueiredo Melo is a Brazilian actor. He works on TV, movies and theater. He also produces and directs movies and videoclips...
    
    )
• Mostra BR - São Paulo International Film Festival
  • Best Film (Bandeira Paulista Award)
  • Critic Award
  • Special Mention to the Film's Cast

• O Cheiro do Ralo has been selected for the International Competition at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival