SAO PAULO (AP) — “The Secret Agent,” a Brazilian feature shortlisted for the Oscars, is all about ordinary people. It follows an unassuming scientist and widowed father who becomes a target of ...

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Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho’s “The Secret Agent” opens with a curious warning. “Our story is set in the Brazil of 1977,” white text reads as a yellow Volkswagen Beetle pulls into a gas ...

After a national debate which spilled over at least once into large controversy, Brazil has selected director Kleber Mendonça Filho’s ‘70s-set thriller “The Secret Agent” as its official entry for the ...

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 ...

American audiences can get a taste of Brazilian history this holiday weekend with the upcoming U.S. release of The Secret Agent, a new historical political thriller that will be Brazil entry into the ...

Neon on Thursday unveiled the official trailer for writer-director Kleber Mendonça Filho‘s buzzy period political thriller The Secret Agent, which won the Best Director prize for Filho, Best Actor for ...