Pictures of Wagner

Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho's 2019 film Bacurau is a masterpiece as far as I'm concerned so obviously I'm going to be paying attention to whatever he does next -- especially given how it's been five years since Bacurau and all he's made in that time was last year's doc Pictures of Ghosts, which was about the history of movie theaters in his hometown Recife (well technically it was about much more than that, but that was the baseline). So today's word on what he's up to was always going to be exciting -- add in that what he's up to will star the terrific actor Wagner Moura (most recently seen being sexy af in Civil War) and it becomes doubly exciting. It's much bigger scaled than Filho's previous work -- titled The Secret Agent, Moura will play:

"... a university professor in his 40s who is on the run. He travels from São Paulo to the seaside city of Recife during Carnival week, hoping to reunite with his son. But he soon finds out he has been tailed and spied on by neighbors in his new refuge, leaving him no possible escape from the tentacles of corruption.”

There's more info from the director himself at that link above -- he says that making Pictures of Ghosts was integral to his process of getting to this one because it helped him deal with the intimate history of the place, and the time, where he grew up and where the film will be set. Anyway we can't wait!