"In Victorian London, a city of spies, one woman is about to be caught in a web of conspiracy and only one man has the power to protect her." ...
Even the housecat is two-faced in The Secret Agent, a culmination of career-long fascinations for Brazilian writer-director Kleber Mendonça Filho. Set in the northeastern Brazilian city of Recife ...
To see his vision of a Mediterranean Revival-style hotel come to life, Laughner brought in a 350 European construction crew; in just 10 months, and at a cost of $3.5 million ($638.5 million in today’s ...
A casual disregard for human life contrasts with a colorful, hard-partyin’ atmosphere of 1977 Carnaval in Brazil in “The Secret Agent,” director Kleber Mendonça Filho’s momentous epic, a mercurial ...
Armando Solimões, the mournful-eyed central character played by Wagner Moura in The Secret Agent, isn’t a government operative, despite the title of the film. He also isn’t undercover, exactly, though ...
Ranging from all-time classics like Goldfinger to modern gems like Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, these secret agents movies are ...
Brazilian auteur Kleber Mendonça Filho dazzled cinephiles with 2016’s “Aquarius” and 2019’s “Bacurau,” but he may have achieved new heights with his latest, “The Secret Agent,” which now has an ...