US EditionThe Secret Agent Review – 'An Astonishing Cinematic Experience'
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Kleber Mendon to Son, director of "The Secret Agent", shared a v god in which compared two phases of certain scenes of the film - before and after the use of special effects for its completion. In its public legend, the cinematist commends the work done by the French companies McMurphy and Brom and the Dutch company Lads and describes the tools used in one of the sequences highlighted by the v deo. Read more (02/17/2026)
The Secret Agent Review
Cast: Wagner Moura, Gabriel Leone, Maria Fernanda Cândido Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho In Irish Cinemas: 20th February 2026 Set against the suffocating climate of Brazil under military rule in the 1970s, Kleber Mendonça Filho’s latest work unfolds as a richly textured, deeply unsettling piece of cinema. Its pleasures are many and contradictory: sun-soaked urban sensuality jostles with menace, grotesque…
The Secret Agent Review – 'An astonishing cinematic experience'
Set in director Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Brazilian hometown of Recife, the slyly titled The Secret Agent is a major work composed in a minor key. It follows an ordinary father and widower forced into extraordinary circumstances, a tale it metes out to its audience with caution, as though trading in state secrets. The flow of information is pivotal: the premise fades into view no sooner than an hour into the movie’s 161-minute runtime, but it unfo…
The Secret Agent review – Mendonça Filho’s most refined,…
An undercover agent discovers he can’t escape his troubled past in Kleber Mendonça Filho’s gripping new drama about the height of Brazil’s military dictatorship. When Marcelo (Wagner Moura) first arrives in Dona Sebastiana’s building, he is greeted by a curious cat whose head is split into two fully formed faces, each facing an opposite direction. In a way, Brazil is much like that cat, constantly looking at two realities at once: the past that …
The Secret Agent (Film Review) – A Slow Burn Masterpiece
A year after I’m Still Here broke our collective hearts with its subtle and transformative portrait of life under Brazil’s military dictatorship, a film that could almost be considered its spiritual sequel has arrived to share more experiences in the troubled times of South America’s biggest nation (and has suitably received a similar amount of…
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