The Secret Agent (Telluride by the Sea 2025)
Schedule
Sun, 14 Sep, 2025 at 12:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
The Music Hall | Portsmouth, NH
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SHOWTIMESunday, September 14 at 12pm
TICKETS
Platinum Pass: $500
Patron Pass: $235
Weekend Pass: $125 (a savings of over $30 off regular priced films)
Individual Film Ticket: $23
https://www.themusichall.org/telluride2025/
Brazil/France/Netherlands/Germany • d: Kleber Mendonça Filho • R • 160m • Portuguese w/ English subtitles
Marcelo, a middle-aged widower, returns home to reconnect with his young son and father-in-law and investigate unresolved questions about his deceased mother’s past. But something feels off. This is Brazil in the 1970s, and the military dictatorship has been marked by reprisals, paranoia and corruption. Writer-director Kleber Mendonça Filho’s feverishly enthralling melodrama, spiked with energetic bits of ‘70s-style horror and exploitation, is set in his hometown of Recife. The story has nothing to do with Joseph Conrad’s classic 1903 spy novel The Secret Agent, but the film shares, in uncanny fashion, Conrad’s power to evoke history, both personal and political, as a nightmare from which each of us is desperately trying to escape. Mendonça Filho has filled his cast with idiosyncratic and unforgettable characters, and Marcelo, played superbly by Wagner Moura (who played Pablo Escobar in NARCOS), earns the Best Actor recognition he won at Cannes.
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Where is it happening?
The Music Hall, 28 Chestnut St, Portsmouth, NH 03801-4001, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
