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‘The Secret Agent’ Director On Brazil’s Cinema Boom & What Needs To Be Fixed: “We Have To Clean Up Our Act”

‘The Secret Agent’ Director On Brazil’s Cinema Boom & What Needs To Be Fixed: “We Have To Clean Up Our Act”

Filmmaker Kleber Mendonca Filho, who is making his third go-round here in Cannes competition with the highly lauded The Secret Agent, is elated to be part of a big comeback for Brazilian cinema. Just this year alone the country has hit two homeruns with Oscar winner I'm Still Here as well as The Blue Trail taking the Silver Bear Jury Prize.

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