You can almost smell the sweat in “The Secret Agent,” a stylish, slow burn thriller about radicals and mercenaries in 1977 Brazil. Filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho begins his film with the note that it ...
Ryan Heffernan is a Senior Writer at Collider. Storytelling has been one of his interests since an early age, with his appreciation for film and television becoming a particular interest of his during ...
"The Secret Agent is a film about memory, or the lack of memory. And generational trauma," said star Wanger Moura, accepting the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Motion Picture. But "I think that if ...
Kleber Mendonça Filho’s epic political thriller The Secret Agent, set in 1977 Brazil, tells the tale of a widowed former ...