The Incurable Ones

Brazil / 2005 / 81 min / fiction / Original Portuguese Version with EST
Original Title: Incuráveis
Directors: Gustavo Acioli
With: Fernando Eiras, Dira Paes

Brasília Festival of Brazilian Cinema 2005: Best Actor (Fernando Eiras)
Meeting of Latin America Cinema Festival 2006: Official Selection

A man, a woman, a cheap hotel room, a game with no rules, one night only. Each does not know who the other is and, therefore, can be whoever they want.The man, who plans to commit suicide the next day, finds a beautiful prostitute in a bar, and pays her to just listen to his story. But they get attached to each other, and the situation gets out of hand.

Incurable, winner of the competition Production of films with tight budget of the Brazilian Ministry of Culture, is the first full-length film noticed by Gustavo Acioli.