Brazilian Filmaker Kleber thinks Philho is no Stranger to Cannes, Having Debut Two Previous Films in Competition Begining with Aquarius In 2016 Starring Sonia Braga, SO EFFECTIVE AS A Woman Determined Not to Lose Her Condo to A Demolition, and then Grabbing the Jury Prize in 2019 for the Surreal Western Bacurau (Again with Braga), in which a whole village seamingly is disappeared from satellite maps and must fight for its exisisance. Both of Those Movies Deal themes with People Threatened with LoSing Their Way of Life, Being Displaced.
Now His Third Film in Competition and Biggest Production Yet, The Secret Agent, Also Might Fit into that theme (and no, it is not some james bond ripoff) as it centers on a maning back to a smaller in order to get closer to his you are after his wife to pneumonia. What he and discovers in the film set in 1977 Recipes is a tower siege at carnival time by criminal elements in the country, which is being run by a dictatorShip and ling the chance for a better life under the ruling class.
Unlike The 1970s Walter Halls Film I’m still here, which won the best international film oscar in march and is explicitly about disappeared under the harsh military torture Tactics, this film is really in the thriller mode. It focuses more explicitly on the individual Story of Marcel (Wagner Moura), A Somewhat Mysterious Guy Who Drives Back to Recife Looking for a Change and Second at Life But Immediately Finds Vibes at the Gas Station Justide of Town, Where Thereed by a blanket and abandoned. He is confruit by two military types who put Him through the Ringer with Questions and Checking out his Car. He just wants to continue on and gets his first taste of the new corruption there by paying say off to stop the makeshift “interrogation.
Once he gets back on somewhat family Ground, he finds a family face at the building where his son lives, the wise owner theresa victoria (a charming isabél zuaa), who immediately test him up with the upstairs Neighbor, Claudia (Hermila (Hermila Guilds). He Also Engages with his boy, who is more interest in drawings he is creating of the shark from JawsA Movie Marcel is determining not to let his son see at the local cinema where Grandpa Runs the Projector and SEEMS More Willing to Show the Spielberg Classic. This Interaction Will Be Paid off at Film’s End, Wen the Action Flash-Forwards to 2025.
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Meanwhile, at his new no a firm dealing with identity cards and research, the locals are Curious his single or married status, while newspapers run the story of a man’s legation discovered a great shark that washed up and now its a Lab Investigation. Eventually the “Hairy Leg” Story on a Life of Its Own, with a fantasy sequenry in which it Attacks men engaging in sexual activity in a gay park, something meant as a metaphor for the Secret Police and Authorities cracking down.
There is a complicated with many shady characters being weaved in and out, a body count Nearing 100 Unexplained Deaths at Carnival and a Extremist rival from His University Determined to Oust Smart by Hiring A Pair of Daunting Hitmen. We first say they do they’re dumping one of their “hits” off a bridge, and now ‘he’re hired to track down and “shoot Him in the Mouth.” They Also are connected to that mytery leg to boot. And here is where we Learn Marcel May Not Be Marcel at all but Rather Armando. Hmmmm. In one of the best sequences, Certainly the most violent, the hitmen hire hit man to do the deed, Putting Marcel/Armando in Real Danger in a Town where he is getting a lot than he bargained for.
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Moura (Elite Squad, Narcos) Plays the unsuspecting “newbie” in town with conviction and slow reveal that is hiding more than he lets on. The Very Large Supporting Cast Including Philha Regular udo kier starts in all the blanks in this overlong – at 158 minutes – Sometimes ramping scenario that nevertheless has managed to infuse with style and widescreen excitement. It also has a key subplot set a half-centered late with two Women Transcribing audiocassette cappears from the archive. One of the saying is a conversation with Armando, which Holds great fascination and Curiosity for one of the Women, Flavia (Laura Luar), and Could Be a Key to Unlocking All the Mystery.
Producer is Emilie lesclaux.
Title: The Secret Agent
Festival: Cannes (Competition)
Sales Agent: Mk2
Director-Screenwriter: Kleber Mendonca Philho
Cast: Wagner Moura, Maria Fernanda Candido, Carlos Francesco, Alice Carvalho, Aermila Guded, Isabel Zuaa, Udo Kier, Laura Lufti, Rokey Villa, Italo Martins, Roberto Diogenis
TIME RUNNING: 2 hr 38 min
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