If you've spent any time in a dictatorship — I've had that happy experience — you understand why your high school teachers were always praising democracy. You quickly learn that authoritarian states ...

Neon acquired the Cannes winner for Best Actor and Best Director and is releasing it in theaters in November after a fall festival run. Wagner Moura‘s character in “The Secret Agent” is not a “violent ...

Ross Bonaime is the Senior Film Editor at Collider. He is a Virginia-based critic, writer, and editor who has written about all forms of entertainment for Paste Magazine, Brightest Young Things, ...

Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho’s “The Secret Agent” opens with a curious warning. “Our story is set in the Brazil of 1977,” white text reads as a yellow Volkswagen Beetle pulls into a gas ...

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 2023, Brazilian filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho made a vastly underrated documentary, Pictures of Ghosts. Within the film, which explores (among many themes) the cinemas of Recife, the filmmaker ...

Once thought a shoo-in for international feature submission, ’The Secret Agent’ faced a vigorous campaign for ‘Manas’ backed by Sean Penn and a mass of Brazilian companies and institutions Coming off ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Don’t run from your past. Revolutionize it! Taking place in 1977 during Brazil’s military dictatorship, The Secret Agent follows Armando Solimoes (Wagner Moura), a technology ...

Neon on Thursday unveiled the official trailer for writer-director Kleber Mendonça Filho‘s buzzy period political thriller The Secret Agent, which won the Best Director prize for Filho, Best Actor for ...

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