Awards contender ‘The Secret Agent’ is one of the year’s best movies

  

"But the other way he does it — and what makes the 158 minutes of “O Agente Secreto” (in the original Portuguese) pass by like a gripping dream — is to suffuse it with beguiling uncertainties: Whom can you trust? Where are you safe? What is everyone’s real name? What can be said and what can’t?

The longer you spend in Filho’s vivid capture of urban Brazil under the repressive rule of a military dictatorship — and its network of eyes and ears — the more you become accustomed to its unspoken rules, the more you hear in its fleeting silences."

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Awards contender ‘The Secret Agent’ is one of the year’s best movies – DNYUZ