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The film explores the repression of academic freedom during Brazil’s 1977 military dictatorship, highlighting ongoing impacts on universities and political debates today.
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The Secret Agent: gripping thriller reminds us why academic freedom needs protecting
Kleber Mendonça Filho’s The Secret Agent (O Agente Secreto, 2025) marks a moment of consolidation in one of contemporary Brazilian cinema’s most consistent careers. Since his early short films such as Cold Tropics (Recife Frio, 2009), the filmmaker has developed a unique style packed with movie references that tantalisingly falls somewhere between arthouse and genre film. These traits reach new heights of self-awareness and formal freedom in The…
Drama about a father looking for the missing daughter in the desert is a cinematographic experience of falling down to hell
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The Secret Agent The Best Picture Oscar-nominated and internationally acclaimed political thriller “The Secret Agent” will have its streaming debut on Hulu in March 1st. Set in Brazil in 1977 during the military dictatorship, the film follows a technology expert (Wagner Moura) forced to flee years before who returns to his hometown of Recife to reunite with his son.. He becomes entangled in the country’s underground resistance while searching fo…
The Brazilian filmmaker, Oliver Laxe's main rival for the Oscar, premieres a paranoid thriller set in the years of the military dictatorship. More information: John Turturro and Channing Tatum, the male softness in two pearls that seduce in the Berlinale
The Secret Agent fascinatingly shifts its genre from melancholic to manic.
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