From left: Gabriel Leone, filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho, Wagner Moura, Maria Fernanda Cândido and Alice Carvalho at 'The Secret Agent' photocall Monday in Cannes Pascal Le Segretain/Getty ...

The eponymous secret agent isn’t Marcelo (a university research scientist), but could be Elza (Maria Fernanda Cândido), a woman who arranged his alias as well as a job for him in Recife’s ...

Now his third film in competition, his biggest production yet, The Secret Agent might also fit into that theme (and no it is not some ripoff of James Bond) as it centers on a man coming back to a ...

Cannes: The "Bacurau" director returns with a vividly textured epic about a man trying to get out of 1970s Brazil or die trying. Born from the process of researching “Pictures of Ghosts” (a ...

The opening credits to director Kleber Mendonça Filho’s “The Secret Agent” set the scene as Brazil, 1977, and then add, “a period of great mischief.” And that might be an appropriate ...

Secret Service agents interviewed former FBI Director James Comey on Friday regarding his “8647” social media post that administration officials called a death threat against President Donald ...

Set in 1977, The Secret Agent — his third Palme d’Or contender — offers an everyday perspective of life under a dictatorship, where violence is almost invisible. It tracks the journey of a ...

The opening credits to director Kleber Mendonça Filho’s “The Secret Agent” set the scene as Brazil, 1977, and then add, “a period of great mischief.” And that might be an appropriate capsule ...