"The Secret Agent is a film about memory, or the lack of memory. And generational trauma," said star Wanger Moura, accepting the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Motion Picture. But "I think that if ...

Ryan Heffernan is a Senior Writer at Collider. Storytelling has been one of his interests since an early age, with his appreciation for film and television becoming a particular interest of his during ...

Kleber Mendonça Filho’s epic political thriller The Secret Agent, set in 1977 Brazil, tells the tale of a widowed former ...

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 ...

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 ...

Aquarius and Bacurau director Kleber Mendonça Filho's The Secret Agent weaves a complex, time-jumping political crime thriller, focusing on one man's experience of persecution. Mainly set in the late ...