Metropole · Film
—The run. For the second year in a row, a Brazilian film is competing for Best International Feature at the Oscars while also nominated for Best Picture.
—The film. The Secret Agent, a 1970s political thriller by Kleber Mendonça Filho starring Wagner Moura, swept three major prizes at the Cannes festival.
—The numbers. Made for about five million dollars, it has earned roughly twenty-two million worldwide and became only the fifth Brazilian film ever to pass one million dollars in United States cinemas.
—The precedent. Last year another Brazilian film won the international-feature Oscar, the country’s first ever, breaking a long drought of nominations without a trophy.
