THE SECRET AGENT

Apr 7 & 8
Tue and Wed 3:30, 7:00pm
Dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho - 2025 - 160m - Brazil - In Portuguese with English subtitles - Valid for Punch Cards
Starring Wagner Moura, Maria Fernanda Cândido, Gabriel Leone, Carlos Francisco, Alice Carvalho, Hermila Guedes - 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 safe haven he was expecting.
"One of the great Latin American works of recent years. It’s tense, intelligent, stylish, and superbly acted. It may echo familiar milestones of Latin American cinema, but it does so with a fresh vision." - Agustín Pérez, Emol.com
"Makes for a fantastic companion piece to Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another in this way — and Maura’s Oscar-nominated performance capitalises on his movie star aura to reinforce how precarious anyone’s existence can be..." - Alistair Harkness, Scotsman
"A masterwork of modern political cinema, and one of the year’s most daring achievements." - Linda Marric, HeyUGuys