2025 ["Kleber Mendon\u00e7a Filho"]

The Secret Agent

Name: The Secret Agent
Genre: [, ", c, r, m
Released: 2025
Rating: 7.3

★ 7.3 IMDb

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.

Essays and Criticism

On this film

MUBI Podcast | “The Secret Agent”: Kleber Mendonça Filho & Wagner Moura on Memory and Manguebeat by MUBI Podcast, MUBI Notebook Cannes 2025: The Secret Agent, The Love That Remains, Magellan by Ben Kenigsberg, RogerEbert.com The Secret Agent by Melissa Anderson, 4Columns

In conversation with other films

The Oppressive State in the Past and Present, as Reflected in Four Films in the Competition by Mariana Hristova, FIPRESCI The Time Machine: In New York and Toronto by Maxwell Paparella, MUBI Notebook TIFF 2025: Hamlet, Rose of Nevada, No Other Choice by Brian Tallerico, RogerEbert.com

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