It's hard to fathom, even in hindsight, how a film about a dictatorship, its long reach into the lives of seemingly ordinary people, a love of old movie houses and carnivals, and something of an experimental narrative structure, could translate into one of the most critically and commercially successful films of recent times. But sometimes the film goddesses smile upon a filmmaker and his audience, and we get a masterpiece like The Secret Agent, that finds universal appeal in its specific story. Criterion has assembles a wonderful 3-disc edition of the film for its collection. Kleber Mendonça Filho's cinema has always combined the personal and the political; memory and erasure; the ordinary person versus the tyrant and the evil. The Secret Agent is his most ambitious film to...
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