Wagner Moura, Brazil's first-ever lead actor nominee, reflects on contemporary correspondences with his historical drama 'The ...
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The actor Wagner Moura and writer-director Kleber Mendonça Filho explain how the Brazilian thriller mirrors their experiences of political corruption and why they are compelled to speak out ...
The Secret Agent ending explained: who killed Armando, why the hit failed, and how Fernando’s lost memory reframes the story ...
You can almost smell the sweat in “The Secret Agent,” a stylish, slow burn thriller about radicals and mercenaries in 1977 Brazil. Filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho begins his film with the note that it ...
SAO PAULO (AP) — “The Secret Agent,” a Brazilian feature shortlisted for the Oscars, is all about ordinary people. It follows an unassuming scientist and widowed father who becomes a target of ...
In a stacked year for international features headlined by Park Chan-wook's No Other Choice and Jafar Panahi's Palme d'Or winner It Was Just an Accident, Brazil's political thriller darling The Secret ...
“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 ...