New Releases
THE SECRET AGENT
Directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho
Brazil/France/Germany/Netherlands, 2025, 2h 38min, DCP, In Portuguese and German with English subtitles.
AFS Cinema
6406 N I-35 Suite 3100 Austin, TX, 78752
Showtimes
Fri, Dec 19
Pricing
$14 evening / $11.50 matinee (available M-F for shows before 5 PM)
$4 discounts for all AFS members.
Discounts for AISD educators and local high school & college students are available at the box office with a valid school ID.
Accessibility
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“A formidable achievement.”
—The Playlist
“A marvellously rangy, sweatily atmospheric epic … THE SECRET AGENT is a maximalist affair, with a story that’s in no hurry to reveal its destination; it twists, bends, and folds in on itself, to ever more fascinating effect.”
—The New Yorker
“With THE SECRET AGENT, Mendonça exhumes the past as the basis for a purely fictional story and in doing so articulates how fiction can be even more valuable as a vehicle for truth than it is as a tool for covering it up.”
—Indiewire
Brazil, 1977. Marcelo (Wagner Moura, star of Narcos and ELITE SQUAD), a technology expert in his early 40s, is on the run. He arrives in Recife during carnival week hoping to reunite with his son but soon realizes that the city is far from being the non-violent refuge he seeks.
Thrillingly original, wholly unexpected, and utterly anarchic, this political thriller — winner of three Cannes Film Festival awards, including Best Actor and Best Director — is a spellbinding panorama of Brazil’s past, directed by Mendonça Filho, acclaimed filmmaker of BACURAU. Co-starring Maria Fernanda Cândido, Gabriel Leone, Irandhir Santos, and Udo Kier.
