FOREIGN FILMS. “The Secret Agent.” / “The Big Fake.” / “Schneider vs. Bax.” / “7 Years.”
“The Secret Agent” (2025, Hulu) Brazilian historical political thriller. Armando is a former professor caught in the political turmoil in the midst of the Brazilian military dictatorship , attempting to flee persecution and resist an authoritarian regime. A visually intriguing and eerily dark political thriller, featuring the fiercely convincing performance of Wagner Moura as Marcelo, a former professor trapped in the 1970s' Brazilian military dictatorship's oppressive claws, under strongman Emilio Garrastazu Medici. While the story is fiction, the narrative is based on real events. Kleber Mendonca Fiho's old-school direction reminds us of the less complex but visually articulate cinema of decades ago, before the 21st century. The emphasis is on the storytelling. 🎥💻📽 “The Big Fake” (2025, Netflix) Italian crime drama. In Rome in the 1970s, Toni arrived in the city with the dream of becoming a...