The first film in our Spring series at Landmark Grand 10. Winner of countless awards, including best actor and best director at Cannes 2025, and nominated for a best picture Oscar, The Secret Agent is a masterwork of modern political cinema and one of the year’s most innovative achievements

It tells the story of an ordinary man ensnared in Brazil’s political turmoil during the late 1970s. Yet it feels urgently alive in the present. This is not a straightforward political thriller or a nostalgic period piece. It’s an expansive, original and daring epic that blends intrigue, comedy and bureaucratic paranoia into something very unique.

Both deadly serious and seriously playful it suggests that contemporary horrors will inevitably become yesterday’s news. But we should not let those voices from the past go silent. They still have things to tell us.

Wednesday April 22 at 6:30

Landmark Grand 10 Cinema

Brazil

Portuguese, English, German with English subtitles

2 hours and 41 minutes