"THE SECRET AGENT" Rialto Theater, Sunday 12/21, 1:00pm(film@1:15)
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"Brazil, 1977. Marcelo, a technology expert in his early 40s, is on the run. Hoping to reunite with his son, he travels to (his hometown), Recife during Carnival but soon realizes that the city is not the safe haven he was expecting. Winner of Best Director and Best Actor in Cannes." 2hrs41"
IMDB:8.0/10; Tomatoes: Critics; 98%; Aud: 92%
" Director Kleber Mendonça Filho.... pulls no punches when it comes to depicting reality in his beloved Brazil. (Film) portrays three men in the Solimões family of Brazil's Pernambuco State who have experienced in different ways the evils of dictatorship"
Not your typical Spy Thriller, as it uses Magical Realism, and quirky characters to depict the effects on people coping with life in an authoritarian state.