Following its award-winning premiere at Cannes ealier this year, Neon has now released a trailer for the 1970s set Brazilian political thriller The Secret Agent. Written and directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho, the film stars Wagner Moura as Marcelo, a widower on the run from mercenaries in Recife, Brazil and relying on the help of […]
Movie Review – Bacurau (2019)
Bacurau, 2019. Directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles. Starring Bárbara Colen, Sônia Braga, Thomas Aquino, Silvero Pereira, Thardelly Lima and Udo Kier. SYNOPSIS: A small Brazilian town finds itself under siege from heavily armed American invaders. Above all else, Bacurau delights in its status as a slippery, unpredictable beast that straddles genres, tones […]
Movie Review – Aquarius (2016)
Aquarius, 2016. Directed by Kleber Mendonca Filho. Starring Sonia Braga, Humberto Carrao, Zoraide Coleto, Irandhir Santos, and Maeve Jinkings. SYNOPSIS: Retired music critic Clara is a survivor. She’s come through breast cancer and the death of her husband, and now she faces the prospect of her much-loved home being taken away from her when a […]
Blu-ray Review – Aquarius (2016)
Aquarius, 2016. Directed and written by Kleber Mendonça Filho. Starring Sonia Braga, Maeve Jinkings, Irandhir Santos, Humberto Carrão, and Zoraide Coleto. SYNOPSIS: A retired journalist becomes embroiled in an intense conflict of interests with a development company intent on acquiring all the apartments in the building where she lives, the Aquarius. Aquarius is a resolutely intelligent work detailing a […]
