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The Secret Agent: "A country that installs amnesia as an objective is really fascinating. In 1979, the military proposed forgetting everything that had happened until then—all the violence..."
In this vHopeful Conversation, Vanessa Hope speaks with Brazilian writer‑director Kleber Mendonça Filho about his Oscar‑nominated film The Secret Agent, exploring how an intimate character study becomes a layered portrait of Brazil under military dictatorship and its haunting echoes in the Bolsonaro era. Kleber discusses drawing on his archival work in Pictures of Ghosts, the iconic Veraneio police car and other precise period details, and the tense, Western‑inflected opening sequence that reveals Wagner Moura’s quietly heroic protagonist through his reaction to absurd violence and petty…
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