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Film reviews: ‘The Secret Agent’ and ‘Zootopia 2’
‘The Secret Agent’Directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho (R)★★★★“This is one of the year’s best films, and one of the most distinctive,” said Matt Zoller Seitz in RogerEbert.com. An award winner at Cannes, the sixth feature from Brazilian writer-director Kleber Mendonça Filho is “a drama, a satire, an intriguingly laid-back espionage film, and a re-creation of a time and place,” yet that’s not all. Wagner Moura stars as a young widower on the run who…
In 1977, a vaguely fugitive quadra reunited his son and attempted a new life in Brazil from the dictatorship. From the start – a police control – The Secret Agent takes foot in his pop coolitude with distension of time in Sergio Leone. It dilates a lot at Kleber Mendonça Filho, and half of the feature film seems engulfed in the hero's presentations to other antifas that we will never see again. [...] The sequel is reserved for subscribers.
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