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"Bacurau" director Kleber Mendonça Filho returns with a vividly textured epic about a man trying to get out of 1970s Brazil ...
The scope of Cannes expands and contracts with three films that either peer into hometowns or box in their cinematic frames.
Carnaval provides a convenient cover story for nearly 100 deaths and disappearances in “The Secret Agent,” Kleber Mendonça ...
EXCLUSIVE: Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho is back in Competition in Cannes for the third time with 1977-set ...
Cohesiveness or coherence are not high on the list of the attributes of Klebel Mendonça Filho's film, but its messiness is part of its charm ...
Kleber Mendonca Filho likes to expose the inequalities and contradictions of Brazilian society through specific situations — ...
So asks a character in one of the most-talked about films of the 78th Cannes Film Festival: Oliver Laxe's ''Sirât'' a Moroccan desert road trip through, we come to learn, a World War III purgatory. It ...
A review of 'The Secret Agent' starring Wagner Maura in a thriller set in small town in Brazil in which a man comes back to ...
An imposing masterpiece Kleber Mendonça Filho’s 'The Secret Agent' stands as the director’s most ambitiously monumental ...
The film takes time piecing together Marcelo’s story and the nature of the threat to his safety. But he’s an immediately ...
Moura has been part of some politically-charged films with strong themes and, at times, ambiguous narratives, with notable ...