Combine the political turmoil of 1977 Brazil, a technology expert on the run, the underground resistance, and one rogue leg and you get this three-time Cannes winner and Oscar contender.
Brazil, 1977. Marcelo, a technology expert in his early 40s, is on the run. Hoping to reunite with his son, he travels to Recife during Carnival but soon realizes that the city is not the safe haven he was expecting. Winner of Cannes Best Director, Best Actor, and FIPRESCI Prize; nominated for four Academy Awards. [161 min; drama, thriller; Portuguese, German, and English with English subtitles]
"For his latest knockout, The Secret Agent, the Brazilian filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho embraces a freewheeling sensibility, and finds laughter amid the terror." — Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
"The movie’s writer and director, Kleber Mendonça Filho, crafts a tight story with startling freedom, leaping between characters in order to conjure their fateful interconnections, while giving them all, persecuted and persecutors alike, an identity and a voice. In the process, he brings history to life with bracing immediacy—a feat all the rarer for the audacious twists of cinematic form with which he renders the movie an act of archival reclamation." — Richard Brody, The New Yorker
"In The Secret Agent, there’s no line between a refugee and being part of a resistance movement—there’s only the state and the people who’ve been designated its enemies." — Alison Willmore, New York Magazine/Vulture
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