Kleber Mendonça Filho’s The Secret Agent, one of many extra buzzy options to debut in Competitors this 12 months in Cannes, has been acquired by Mubi.
The streamer has picked up the movie for the UK, Eire, India, and Latin America, excluding Brazil.
The Secret Agent is led by Wagner Moura and likewise stars Maria Fernanda Cândido, Gabriel Leon, Carlos Francisco, Alice Carvalho, and Hermila Guedes. The movie was produced by Emilie Lesclaux. Co-producers embody Nathanaël Karmitz, Elisha Karmitz, Fionnuala Jamison, Olivier Barbier, Leontine Petit, Erik Glijnis, Fred Burke, and Sol Bondy.
The movie’s synopsis reads: Brazil, 1977. Marcelo, a know-how professional in his early 40s, is on the run. He arrives in Recife throughout carnival week, hoping to reunite along with his son, however quickly realizes that town is much from being the non-violent refuge he seeks.
Filho is finest identified for his final fiction characteristic, Bacurau, which debuted in competitors at Cannes in 2018 and received the Jury Prize. His final characteristic was Retratos Fantasmas, a documentary that debuted at Cannes in 2023.
The deal for The Secret Agent was negotiated between MUBI and mk2, who’re dealing with worldwide gross sales. Mubi has been busy this 12 months in Cannes. Final week, we introduced the corporate had locked a deal on Lynne Ramsay’s Cannes title Die My Love, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson. They are going to launch that movie in North America, Latin America, the UK, Eire, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Benelux, Turkey, India, Australia, and New Zealand.
Cannes ends on Saturday.
