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‘The Secret Agent’ Review: Wagner Maura Effectively Plays Man Of Mystery In Brazilian Thriller – Cannes Film Festival
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 for a new chance at life
Now his third film in competition, his biggest production yet, The Secret Agent might also fit into that theme (and no it is not some ripoff of James Bond) as it centers on a man coming back to a small city in order to get closer to his young son after losing his wife to pnemonia. He also engages with his boy who is more interested in drawings he is creating of the shark from Jaws, a movie Marcel is determined not to let his son see at the local cinema where grandpa runs the projector and seems more willing to show the kid the Spielberg classic (this interaction will all be paid off at film’s end when the action flash forwards to 2025). Meanwhile at his new job at a firm dealing with identity cards and research the locals are curious about his single or married status, while newspapers run the story of a man’s leg being discovered in a great white shark which was washed up and now made its way to a lab for a police investigation.
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