The Maid: a little guilty pleasure? (critical)

The Maid: a little guilty pleasure? (critical)

The film adaptation of the novel-phenomenon navigates between soft eroticism, algorithmic efficiency and degenerate Hitchockism. The HousekeeperFreida McFadden’s bestseller, seemed made for the cinema. Not…

The Secret Agent: a dizzying sum film (review)

The Secret Agent: a dizzying sum film (review)

After the intimate resistance of Aquarius and the pulp fable of Bacurau, Kleber Mendonça Filho changes era but not combat. The Secret Agent plunges into…