A favorite filmmaker of the festival, and perhaps the best Brazilian filmmaker currently working, Kleber Mendonça Filho has been to Cannes on many occasions. He has been a fiour star tyope of filmmaker for us with Aquarius (read ★★★★ review) and Bacurau (read ★★★★ review). Of course our favorite still remains the Rotterdam selected Neighboring Sounds (read review). Filming on The Secret Agent took place in March of last year — it stars Wagner Moura as Marcelo, a university professor in his 40s who is on the run. He travels from São Paulo to the seaside city of Recife during Carnival week, hoping to reunite with his son. But he soon finds out he has been tailed and spied on by neighbors in his new refuge, leaving him no possible escape from the tentacles of corruption. This was the tenth film in competition as we are at the mid-way portion of the competition.
Back when it was his first time in competition, Filho’s Aquarius landed with an average score of 3.6. Years later, he saw Bacurau end up with a 3.2 score. Well right now his film (the longest runtime in comp) shot to the top and is fractions away from tying for first place with an average score of 3.7 and this is only from thirteen of our critics. With seven grades remaining we could have a tie for first alongside Sirat.
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