Wagner Moura, Maria Fernanda Cândido, Gabriel Leone
Master filmmaker Kleber Mendonca Filho (Neighbouring Sounds, Aquarius, Bacurau) teams up with a superb Wagner Moura (Narcos, Civil War) for this rich, arresting, novelistic political thriller that was garlanded with awards at Cannes (including Best Director and Best Actor) and has been hailed by critics as a fascinatingly unpredictable, shape-shifting epic. Steeped in history, The Secret Agent also feels remarkably contemporary, paying tribute to the genre blockbusters of Filho’s youth while depicting a world of everyday corruption, threat and political turmoil that speaks to the present moment.
1977 Brazil: Amid the revelry of Carnival, widower Marcelo (Wagner Moura) arrives in vibrant, violent Recife. A technology researcher who suddenly finds himself an unwitting target in the heart of the dictatorship’s political maelstrom, Marcelo is on the run from mercenary killers and the ghosts of the past. Amid mounting threats, Marcelo, aided by compatriots in the country’s growing underground resistance, remains focused on escaping Brazil with his young son.