DRAINED

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

Lending his irresistible charm to a darkly comic personification of narcissism, Selton Mello delivers a masterfully complex performance in Heitor Dhalia’s acidic portrait of male ego. In a materialistic world where everything, including lust, is quantified and monetized, even morality has a price.