US EditionThe Vibes Are Enigmatic in Brazilian thriller The Secret Agent
Wagner Moura’s award-winning performance highlights life under Brazil’s 1970s dictatorship, showing political refugees' struggles amid carnival and covert networks, director says.
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Let 'The Secret Agent' fill you in on what it's like to live under a dictatorship
A research scientist is on the run from hitmen in this thrilling film. Set in 1977 Brazil, The Secret Agent captures the daily realities and surreal absurdities of life in an authoritarian state.
Kleber Mendonça Filho delivers a meditation on Brazil's corrupt dictatorial past as much as a real thriller.
The Vibes Are Enigmatic in Brazilian thriller The Secret Agent
At the beginning of The Secret Agent, the new historical Brazilian thriller from writer-director Kleber Mendonça Filho, a title card explains that in 1977 the country was in “a period of great mischief.” This phrase turns out to be both accurate and misleading. When the corrupted powerful are the perpetrators of said mischief, the subsequent impact on ordinary people is devastating, not playful. But Mendonça Filho is not the type of filmmaker wh…
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