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Drenched in sex and death, “The Secret Agent” peers into the past in order to make sense of the present. The latest film from celebrated Brazilian writer-director Kleber Mendonça Filho starts with a dead body and ends with an elegy for a different one. In between, it tells the story of an ordinary man ensnared in Brazil’s political turmoil during the late 1970s. Both deadly serious and seriously playful, this Cannes prizewinner may have the trappings of a thriller, but Mendonça Filho occasionally flips the script by inserting cheeky nods to schlocky B-movies — or the random movie theater blowjob. “The Secret Agent” isn’t tightly coiled so much as it gradually unfolds, its full mean

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