The Secret Agent
Winner of multiple prizes at the Cannes Film Festival, Kleber Mendonça Filho (“Bacurau”)’s sly, genre-bending political thriller, “The Secret Agent”, stars Wagner Moura (“Civil War”) as Marcelo, a technology expert seeking refuge in Recife during Brazil’s 1977 military dictatorship. The film, structured in three parts and shifting between timelines, unveils its plot through a puzzle-like […]
Detour: Female Trouble
Nice girls don’t wear cha cha heels! Glamour has never been more grotesque than in Female Trouble, which injects the Hollywood melodrama with anarchic decadence. Divine, director John Waters’ larger-than-life muse, engulfs the screen with charisma as Dawn Davenport, the living embodiment of the film’s lurid mantra, “Crime is beauty,” who progresses from a teenage nightmare hell-bent […]
