Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho Catch this political fable set in the filmmaker’s hometown of Recife during the late 1970s. “The Secret Agent” stars a widowed former university professor whose life has been upended by the vengeance of a government bureaucrat. On the run and living under an alias during the country’s military dictatorship, he tries to escape, while also reconnecting with the young son he had to leave behind.
