The secret agent: Wagner Moura in front of the Brazilian dictatorship (trailer)
The new film by Kleber Mendonça Filho, doubly awarded in Cannes, starts his campaign for the Oscars.
Presented last May on the Croisette, The secret agent conquered the drafting of Firstand the jury chaired by Juliette Binoche, with two awards: the realization for Kleber Mendonça Filho and the interpretation prize for Wagner Moura. French spectators will have to wait until January 16 to discover it indoors, but in the United States its release is scheduled for late November in anticipation of the Oscars. And its distributor, Neon, starts its campaign.
The opportunity to discover a first teaser of the film, which plunges us into Brazil in the 1970s, in the middle of a military dictatorship. The secret agent follows the trajectory of a “A man in his forties fleeing a troubled past“And who”arrives in the city of Recife where the carnival is in full swing“, describes the synopsis.”He comes to find his young son and hopes to build a new life there. This is without counting on death threats that prowl and hover over his head …“”
Sublime photograph, deliciously nebulous scenario and enjoyable soundtrack. The secret agent brings together all the ingredients of a modern masterpiece. And he devotes all the talent of Wagner Moura (Narcos,, Civil War), as well as the mastery of the director ofAquarius And Bacurauwhich also pays tribute with nostalgia to the films that have marked its youth through this story located in its native recife.
The secret agent Will be presented at the Toronto Festival in September, and Neon intends to push him to the Oscars, and not only for the best international film (won last year by a Brazilian feature film, I’m still there by Walter Salles). The distributor of Parasite And Anora will defend the film in all possible categories, and Moura has a solid chances of being named among the best actors.
