Wagner MouraS character in ”The secret agent“Is not a” violent person. “But he is making an exception.
“For this man I would kill him with a hammer,” says Moura in the first teaser for “The Secret Agent” in a tense interrogation scene.
“The Secret Agent” is the latest film From director Kleber Mendonça Filho, the Brazilian AUTEUR who did ”Bacurau“And” Aquarius, “and his latest is a good-term thriller about a man who is desperate after coming out of Brazil or Dö’s tries. It is specifically followed by Marcelo 1977 Brazil, who is a technology expert who arrives at Recife under Carnival in the hope of re-entering his son, that the city is not to realize that the city is not the non-realm.
The film was generally praised out of Cannes and then scooped up by NeonAs now it releases theatrical in a limited capacity from 26 November. Of course, it is after it does its rounds at Telluride, TIFF and the New York Film Festival.
“The Secret Agent” was one of Neon’s many purchases after it looked as if it could be a challenger for the Palme d’Or on the distributor’s quest to keep his Palme victory alive. And even though the top prize later went to another neon edition, Jafar Panahi’s “It was just an accident”, “The Secret Agent” took home a serious hardware, The rare movie to win both the best director and best actor for Moura.
The performance from Moura, which American audience will recognize for his work with “anesthesia” and in Alex Garland’s “Civil War” is one that is one who is one that is one Indiegees David Ehrlich called “Fraudulent recessive” and one like “Mendonça mines for their wrong sense of mystery from the film’s opening scene.” It is not difficult to imagine a world where Moura works its way into the awards and potentially “The Secret Agent” himself for best international film.
In its review also compared “The Secret Agent” with something like “The Grand Budapest Hotel” or “I Still Here”, movies that also “hang on the tragic arrest of their stolen pasts”, while playing with B-Movie Tropes.
“The Secret Agent” also plays Maria Fernanda Cândido and Gabriel Leone. Check out the first teaser for the movie below:
