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Will you believe if I say our For the Criminal Excellence Fund (2018) is much like a common with Brazilian movie Secret agent/ The Secret Agent (2025)? So the 78th Cannes Film Festival has experienced a historic triumph with two awards. Pink panther The humor thriller filled with the adventure has not only won the best directing – it is written by Brazilian film critic and director Kleber Mendosa Files – but also the Best Actor Award. It was received by Brazilian Vagner Moura, one of the most internationally known Latin American actors. Their Latvian viewers are likely to remember as a hectic, refined Pablo Escobar Netflix series Narcocuriers/Narcos (2015-2017) or as a stoic reporter Joel of Alex Garland award-winning road movies Civil War/Civil War (2024) – It brought in the very heart of America’s darkness, imagining an apocalyptic national crisis.

Secret agent There is one of the best films in this year’s cans – we will hear a lot about it, especially in the fall, when it will not only go to the screens in Latvia, but will also be dragged into the prize season. The film is in the late 1970s – in a difficult time for Brazil – a historical characteristic of a seated. Also a real criminal. And a little absurd comedy. Its center is the regimen’s conspiracy schemes, « The Excess Feature » Marseille, which is portrayed by Moura. I agree with the other media that nearly three decades of cinema, Moura, is turning into a movie star: he is an intelligent, Hampry Bogart’s manner of aphorismus -throwing academic. Marseille is tracked by police, mercenaries, and more colorful nonsense than each other.

The style of the film is held to perfection, but you will not call it « smooth forehead cinema », where everything is made with seriousness. No, on the contrary, here the culprit of the story becomes the shark’s leg, the images stepped out of anecdotes, the corpses and visual paradoxes that reveal Brazilian cinema and history.

It should be noted for a slight retreat: Significantly last year, Brazilian cinema also came to the center of international attention. During the prize season, walking next to Ginta Zilbaloža Stream (2024), the historical drama of the living classic Walter Sale I’m still here/i’m Still here (2024) got the best international movies Oscar. It is in the form of a classic, flawlessly -held family drama of a real politician Rubens’ arrest in 1971 during the military dictatorship in Rio de Janeiro and his wife’s desperate efforts to learn more about his fate after the arrest. Fernanda Toresh, the leading role, became not only a Brazilian national pride, but also won Oscar Prize nomination for the best acting.

After the Cannes Film Festival, in which one film is atypical, Brazil has been re -attention to Brazil. A certificate that it is possible to talk about nationally announced memory in the genre of cinema grace (and also in the absence) is something that Latvia can also take into account. But in the meantime, the talented Moura, who has now recorded his name in history, is reminiscent of the importance of memory, archives, and generations.

Disarmed me that Secret agent The story of personal and national memory and how uncomfortable it is to get closer to the heavy points in it. In the last scene, your hero is not sure or wants to know more. It tells a lot about ourselves.

Yes, the movie is playing with this state of consciousness. I understand it perfectly – we tend to not want to confront ourselves with the past.

The film is about the hero who is trying to understand and prove the truth for a very long time – that’s why he is looking for information in archives. I made a movie several years ago Marigel/Marighella (2019) About politician Karlus Marigel, who was the leader of the non -violent resistance group and one of the biggest critics of the dictatorship. The regime deleted him from history and collective memories: this man simply did not exist.