‘The Secret Agent’ trailer: Wagner Moura runs for his life in Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Cannes winner

The primary trailer for The Secret Agent, Kleber Mendonça Filho’s newest function, has been launched following its award-winning debut at this yr’s Cannes Movie Pageant. The Brazilian political thriller, led by Wagner Moura, took dwelling Greatest Director and Greatest Actor for Moura, together with the Artwork Home Cinema Award and the FIPRESCI Prize.

The movie is about in Brazil in 1977 and follows Marcelo (Moura), a expertise professional in his early 40s who’s on the run. Hoping to seek out security and reunite together with his son, Marcelo arrives in Recife throughout carnival week. What he discovers as an alternative is a metropolis gripped by pressure and violence, removed from the refuge he was searching for.

Scored with an Ennio Morricone monitor from Salvatore Samperi’s 1968 drama Come Play With Me, the footage suggests a tense, elliptical portrait of paranoia, hazard and fractured household ties reasonably than a traditional thriller.

Mendonça Filho, thought to be one in every of Brazil’s main up to date filmmakers, is thought for work that blends politics, historical past and style. His earlier movies embody the internationally acclaimed Bacurau (co-directed with Juliano Dornelles) and the documentary Footage of Ghosts, which explored the historical past of film theaters in his hometown.

Following its Cannes success, The Secret Agent is slated to display screen at main fall festivals, together with the Toronto Worldwide Movie Pageant and the New York Movie Pageant. With robust vital momentum, it’s extensively anticipated to be Brazil’s submission for the Greatest Worldwide Function class on the upcoming Academy Awards.

Neon will launch The Secret Agent in U.S. theaters on Nov. 26.