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 ...

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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Drenched in sex and death, “The Secret Agent” peers into the past in order to make sense of the present. The ...

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IndieWire Honors: Brazilian filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho was confident the Performance Award recipient Wagner Moura was the "great artist" needed to "unite our so many characters" in "The Secret ...

IndieWire Honors: The Performance Award recipient realized that, in returning to work in his native Brazil in Kleber Mendonça Filho's Cannes winner, "the more connected to my roots I am... the better ...

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Kleber Mendonça Filho, whose latest film “The Secret Agent” represents Brazil in the international feature film race at the Oscars, sounded the alarm on the disruptive impact of “streaming culture” on ...