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We caught Kleber Mendonça Filho’s The Secret Agent at its noon premiere in Cannes, and it’s still unfolding in our heads. A slow-burn period thriller set in 1977 Recife, the film blends political memory, quiet suspense, and Wagner Moura’s haunting performance into a beautifully layered story about erasure, identity, and the power of fiction to preserve truth.
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We caught Kleber Mendonça Filho’s The Secret Agent at its noon premiere in Cannes, and it’s still unfolding in our heads. A slow-burn period thriller set in 1977 Recife, the film blends political memory, quiet suspense, and Wagner Moura’s haunting performance into a beautifully layered story about erasure, identity, and the power of fiction to preserve truth.

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