Artwork home streamer and distributor Mubi has acquired The Secret Agent, from author and director Kleber Mendonça Filho (Ghost Portrait, Bacurau, Aquarius), for the U.Okay., Eire, India and Latin America, apart from Brazil. The political thriller has been a standout within the Cannes Movie Pageant competitors.
The Portuguese-language film, a few expertise knowledgeable returning to his hometown in 1977 to reunite along with his younger son and flee the nation, premiered at Cannes on Sunday. The Secret Agent stars Wagner Moura, Maria Fernanda Cândido, Gabriel Leon, Carlos Francisco, Alice Carvalho and Hermila Guedes.
Mubi will unveil launch plans for the assorted territories within the close to future. It struck the take care of MK2, which is dealing with worldwide gross sales on the film. Neon has acquired the movie for North America.
The Secret Agent is about in Brazil in 1977. “Marcelo, a expertise knowledgeable in his early 40s, is on the run,” reads a synopsis. “He arrives in Recife throughout carnival week, hoping to reunite along with his son however quickly realizes that town is much from being the non-violent refuge he seeks.”
The movie has drawn rave opinions. “Enlivened by a populous, virtually Altman-esque gallery of characters — manner too many to say — performed with out a single false notice, and by the sturdy sense of a neighborhood pulling collectively for security from the oppressive forces exterior, the film luxuriates in an inebriating sense of time and place that speaks of Mendonça Filho’s intense love for the setting,” David Rooney wrote in his THR evaluate. “It’s a significant achievement, and for my cash, positive to be among the best movies of the yr.
The Secret Agent is the Brazilian filmmaker’s third movie to premiere in competitors at Cannes after Aquarius in 2016 and Bacurau, which he co-wrote and co-directed with Juliano Dornelles and which gained the Prix du Jury in 2019. In 2017, Filho served because the jury president of the Critics’ Week part at Cannes and his second documentary, Footage of Ghosts, premiered within the Particular Screenings part on the 2023 competition.
The Secret Agent has Moura returning to Portuguese-language cinema after a number of years away. The movie is produced by Emilie Lesclaux, Nathanaël Karmitz, Elisha Karmitz, Fionnuala Jamison, Olivier Barbier, Leontine Petit, Erik Glijnis, Fred Burke and Sol Bondy.