Arthouse Streamer and Mubi distributor acquired the political thriller The secret agent Of the writer and director Kleber Mendonça Filho (Ghost Portrait, Bacurau, Aquarius), which was out of competition in the contest of the Cannes Film Festival, for the United Kingdom, Ireland, India and Latin America, with the exception of Brazil.
The Portuguese language film, about a technological expert returning to his hometown in 1977 to find his young son and flee the country, was created in Cannes on Sunday. The secret agenT features Wagner Moura, Maria Fernanda Candido, Gabriel Leon, Carlos Francisco, Alice Carvalho and Hermila Guedes.
Mubi will unveil the liberation plans of different territories in the near future. He concluded the agreement with MK2, which manages international sales on the film. Neon acquired the film for North America.
The secret agent takes place in Brazil in 1977. “Marcelo, an expert in technology at the start of the forties, is on the run,” reads a synopsis. “He arrives in Recife during the Carnival week, hoping to find his son but soon realizes that the city is far from being the non -violent refuge that he is looking for.”
The film attracted loss critics. “Enlivened by a Populous, Almost Altman-Esque Gallery of Characters-Way too much to Mention-Played Without A Single False Note, and by the Strong Sense of A Community Pulling Together for Safety from the Oppressive Forces Outside, the Movie Luxuriates in An Inebriat Sense of Time and Speaks of Mendonça Filho’s Intense Love for the Setting, ”David Rooney Wrote in His THR goodbye. “It is a major achievement, and for my money, certainly one of the best films of the year.
The secret agent is the third film of the Brazilian filmmaker at the first in competition in Cannes after Aquarius in 2016 and Bacurauthat he co-written and co-edited with Juliano Dornelles and won the jury for the Prize of, in 2019. In 2017, Filho was president of the jury of the section of Critics Week in Cannes and his second documentary Ghost images Created in the special projections section at the 2023 festival.
The secret agent Moura returned to Portuguese cinema after several years. The film is produced by Emilie Lesclaux, Nathanaël Karmitz, Elisha Karmitz, Fionnuala Jamison, Olivier Barbier, Leontine Petit, Erik Glijnis, Fred Burke and Sol Bondy.
