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‘The Secret Agent’: Read The Screenplay For Kleber Mendonca Filho’s Triple Cannes Winner And Brazil’s Oscar Entry
- Deadline previews The Secret Agent as Brazil’s official entry for Best International Feature at the 98th Academy Awards.
- The Cannes premiere earned Filho Best Director and Moura Best Actor honors, with the FIPRESCI Prize for Best Film.
- The story centers Marcelo, a widower and technology researcher, who flees mercenaries amid Brazil's dictatorship in 1977.
- The film uses memory and a newspaper clipping to depict Marcelo’s killing and connect past and present.
- Deadline’s broader series includes other Oscar-contending scripts like ‘Sound Of Falling’ and ‘Is This Thing On?’.
- Director Kleber Mendonça Filho emphasizes a memory-focused narrative amid Brazil’s historical amnesia.
- The screenplay excerpt and analysis are part of Deadline’s ongoing Read The Screenplay series.
- Deadline notes the film’s political backdrop as a critique of repression and memory in Brazil.
- The film’s title in Portuguese is O Agente Secreto, and Neon distributes the Cannes-recognized thriller.
- Deadline attributes the film’s success to a signaled blend of intimate drama and political context.
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