Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts behind the year’s most talked-about movies continues with The Secret Agent (O Agente Secreto), Neon‘s thriller from writer-director ...
Editor's Note: This conversation has been edited and condensed for publication. I've been following your work for a few years, but for it to be for this film, from your home country of Brazil, and the ...
A casual disregard for human life contrasts with a colorful, hard-partyin’ atmosphere of 1977 Carnaval in Brazil in “The Secret Agent,” director Kleber Mendonça Filho’s momentous epic, a mercurial ...
If you've spent any time in a dictatorship — I've had that happy experience — you understand why your high school teachers were always praising democracy. You quickly learn that authoritarian states ...
“This is one of the year’s best films, and one of the most distinctive,” said Matt Zoller Seitz in RogerEbert.com. An award winner at Cannes, the sixth feature from Brazilian writer-director Kleber ...
Secret Santa gift exchanges can be chaotic in the best way. One minute you’re drawing a name from a hat, the next you’re scrambling to figure out what they’d actually like. The trick is finding ...
Wagner Moura has made Golden Globes history, becoming the first Brazilian man ever nominated for lead actor in a drama for his performance in Kleber Mendonça Filho’s “The Secret Agent.” The nomination ...
Beware the film critics who turn into filmmakers – they’ll either turn you off the medium entirely, or find something inside of it so startlingly new that it’ll make you reconsider smack-talking any ...
"Thank you so much to the Golden Globes for this nomination. Historically, this is the first time a Brazilian film has received three nominations, and Wagner becoming the first Brazilian nominated for ...
'One Battle After Another' and Jafar Panahi Warner Bros./Josh Telles for Deadline Close to four hours after closing the doors to vote, the New York Film Critics Circle on Tuesday gave its Best Film ...
The new movie "The Secret Agent" follows a man named Armando in hiding in the Brazilian city of Recife in 1977. Armando, who uses the alias Marcelo, is on the run from men hired by an industrialist to ...
Netflix's new Christmas romcom is sure to give fans of Mrs Doubtfire a major sense of déjà vu. My Secret Santa landed on the platform today and follows Virgin River actress, and romcom legend, ...