With Films like “The Secret Agent,” Kleber Mendonca Filho Makes the Specific, Universal
Unbothered to explain any local reference or in-joke, Kleber Mendonca Filho makes films specific to his birth city, Recife, and it works.
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Five Brazilian Noir Films to Watch Now
Even though the genre was born out of American fatalism, film noir became something new and powerful in the hands of Brazilian filmmakers.