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The Secret Agent
“This is one of the year’s best films, and one of the most distinctive.” – RogerEbert.com
“A rousing, suspenseful, occasionally hilarious, and ultimately unnerving 160-minute tale of battling political oppression.” – NPR
“Kleber Mendonça Filho embraces a freewheeling sensibility and finds laughter amid the terror.” – NYT
“[Writer-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.” – The New Yorker
99% on Rotten Tomatoes
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 haven he was expecting.
Winner of Best Director and Best Actor in Cannes.
