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3 days agoScreen Grabs: On the lam with excellent 'The Secret Agent' - 48 hills
The Secret Agent portrays a man hiding under a 1977 Brazilian military dictatorship who seeks his son within a community of political refugees.
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 for most of the first half of the film, the terrific latest from Kleber Mendonça Filho, he goes by the alias of Marcelo Alves. When Armando first rolls up to a gas station on the outskirts of his hometown of Recife
Walter Salles' " I'm Still Here," which won the Best International Feature Film Oscar earlier this year, calmly but powerfully observes a real-life personal struggle under a dictatorship in Brazil during the early 1970s. While never overlooking the grim and horrific aspects of that time, the movie stays focused on small but resonant human moments, and these intimate interactions become all the more poignant to us as the story eventually arrives at its two-part epilogue.