(O Agente Secreto)
Country: BRA/FR/MEX/GER/NL
Technical: col/2.39:1 161m
Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho
Cast: Wagner Moura, Carlos Francisco, Tânia Maria, Robério Diógenes
Synopsis:
During the political turmoil of 1977, a former university technology professor travels north to visit his son, where he works under an alias in the identity card bureau. Meanwhile, an old political enemy hires two hitmen to find him and kill him. In the present, two students listen to hours of tape recordings of the time as part of their research project on the covert opposition.
Review:
A lack of knowledge of the period may result in some confusion, but few films capture the feel of the seventies better than this. From the start the film establishes an atmosphere pregnant with sudden violence, which explodes towards the end, though we are spared the final details. Life is clearly cheap: the hitmen insist on 60,000 to do the job, but balk at paying the 4,000 their hatchet man demands. There is a nice little sidebar devoted to the film Jaws, and a surreal sequence involving a rampaging shark-severed leg; the only question is whether the extreme length was necessary.
(O Agente Secreto)
Country: BRA/FR/MEX/GER/NL
Technical: col/2.39:1 161m
Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho
Cast: Wagner Moura, Carlos Francisco, Tânia Maria, Robério Diógenes
Synopsis:
During the political turmoil of 1977, a former university technology professor travels north to visit his son, where he works under an alias in the identity card bureau. Meanwhile, an old political enemy hires two hitmen to find him and kill him. In the present, two students listen to hours of tape recordings of the time as part of their research project on the covert opposition.
Review:
A lack of knowledge of the period may result in some confusion, but few films capture the feel of the seventies better than this. From the start the film establishes an atmosphere pregnant with sudden violence, which explodes towards the end, though we are spared the final details. Life is clearly cheap: the hitmen insist on 60,000 to do the job, but balk at paying the 4,000 their hatchet man demands. There is a nice little sidebar devoted to the film Jaws, and a surreal sequence involving a rampaging shark-severed leg; the only question is whether the extreme length was necessary.
