**Please note: Tickets for this film are currently on standby, which means advance sales may be sold out. A limited number of tickets may become available at the door just before the screening begins (from returns or unused complimentary tickets). Additional tickets could also be released online, so we encourage you to check the VIFF page regularly for updates.**

VLACC is proud to partner with VIFF to bring Vancouver audiences The Secret Agent, the latest film from acclaimed Brazilian filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho (Bacurau).

Having run afoul of an influential bureaucrat working inside of Brazil’s military dictatorship circa 1977, Marcelo (Narcos’ Wagner Moura) decamps to Recife to live under an assumed name and reconnect with his young son. Bedding in with a cadre of political dissidents and refugees while finding work in the state identification archives, the former university researcher comes to understand precisely how insidious and all-encompassing the country’s corruption has become.

The Secret Agent serves notice that Kleber Mendonça Filho is now undisputedly one of international cinema’s titans. Filled with nostalgic references and punctuated by absurdist digressions, the film is both reflective and visionary in equal measure. Epic in scope, rich in allegory, and ambitious in structure (the narrative nimbly shifts between multiple time periods), this is a sophisticated and engrossing neo-noir that not only recalls classic 70s paranoid political thrillers but gives them a run for their money.

Saturday, October 11 at 2 pm
Location: Vancouver Playhouse (600 Hamilton St, Vancouver, BC V6B 2P1)
One other screening on Monday, October 6, at 9pm, also at the Vancouver Playhouse

**Please note: Tickets for this film are currently on standby, which means advance sales may be sold out. A limited number of tickets may become available at the door just before the screening begins (from returns or unused complimentary tickets). Additional tickets could also be released online, so we encourage you to check the VIFF page regularly for updates.**

In partnership with VIFF