The opening credits to director Kleber Mendonça Filho’s “The Secret Agent” set the scene as Brazil, 1977, and then add, “a period of great mischief.” And that might be an appropriate ...

We simply have to let them." The Secret Service has a total of 8,210 employees and law enforcement officers, including 3,904 special agents, 1,560 in the uniformed division, 265 technical law ...

A technology expert goes back to his hometown in 1977 to reunite with his young son and flee the country while hitmen hired by a corrupt federal official close in on him. By David Rooney Chief ...

Cannes: The "Bacurau" director returns with a vividly textured epic about a man trying to get out of 1970s Brazil or die trying. Born from the process of researching “Pictures of Ghosts” (a ...

The eponymous secret agent isn’t Marcelo (a university research scientist), but could be Elza (Maria Fernanda Cândido), a woman who arranged his alias as well as a job for him in Recife’s ...

Carnaval provides a convenient cover story for nearly 100 deaths and disappearances in “The Secret Agent,” Kleber Mendonça Filho’s robust sense-memory immersion into the sights, sounds and ...

“The Secret Agent” marks the third time lauded Brazilian filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho plays in competition at Cannes, following “Aquarius” in 2016 and “Bacurau” in 2019, but it ...

After the world premiere of The Secret Agent in Cannes, actor Wagner Moura and director Kleber Mendonça Filho and others connected with the film did a joyous dance down the Croisette. That gives ...

Step into the shadowy world of medieval espionage as we uncover the mysterious life of a secret agent in the Middle Ages. From coded messages and covert missions to double agents and royal ...

Brazil, 1977. A left-leaning academic and technology expert flees a powerful enemy, returning to the place of his birth – the state of Pernambuco in northeast Brazil – under the assumed name ...

Set in 1977, The Secret Agent — his third Palme d’Or contender — offers an everyday perspective of life under a dictatorship, where violence is almost invisible. It tracks the journey of a ...