The Secret Agent
Nominated for Best Picture, Best International Feature and Best Actor (Wagner Moura) at the upcoming Oscars, Kleber Mendonca Filho’s rich, arresting thriller won Best Foreign Language Film and Best Actor at the recent Golden Globes.
This is a Portuguese language film and will be subtitled.
Nominated for Best Picture, Best International Feature and Best Actor (for Wagner Moura – Narcos, Civil War) at the upcoming Oscars, Kleber Mendonca Filho’s (Neighbouring Sounds, Aquarius, Bacurau) rich, arresting thriller won Best Foreign Language Film and Best Actor at the recent Golden Globes.
Brazil, 1977: Marcelo (Wagner Moura) arrives in vibrant, violent Recife. A technology researcher who finds himself an unwitting target at the heart of the dictatorship’s political maelstrom, Marcelo is on the run from mercenary killers and the ghosts of his past.
A fascinating and shape-shifting epic, The Secret Agent pays tribute to the cinema of Filho’s youth while depicting a world of everyday corruption, threat and political turmoil that speaks to the current moment.