“Lula isn’t magical. It’s hard to rebuild a broken one.”

Company director An orphan He succeeded by confirming that the locals who make up the Hollywood Academy are “ultra-nationalists” and will vote for Oscar as long as he can. Saturated shoes emoticons beckon to the official highlights of the drama of the Galician filmmaker who knows that you will compete for an Oscar in the category of international film against AND thriller the era of those who dejan huella, Secret agent.

To the director, Kleber Mendonça Filho (Recife, 1968), grew up in the heat of the cinema of Costa-Gavras and Oliver Stone, as well as never mind their leaders as politiciansI admit that “por supuesto” I am.

In his new proposal, he is also nominated for Best Picture, Best Actor for Wagner Moura, and Best castingon camera they point out the following corruption a professor who died.

Please. The film is a metaphor for the value of celluloid in preserving history. Want to pay tribute to cinema?

Response. In a way, yes. I have seen all my life cinema, music and books as guardians of time.

»Every work we do, good or bad, is a document of the future. They will not be retained in the futureand this is similar to what we always do in two rounds: who will survive what we have on earth? For example, it is significant to finish the film in a place that now looks like a hospital, but because its architecture knows that it was a cinema.

P. in this respect Secret agent It is also a documentary about Recife. Do you think that your city, film after film, turns into a production of your work?

R. I’ve always had it since I was little and I have a very strong relationship with the city. He is very special, with a very distinct personality. Culturally and politically it is very wild: It is a very izquierdas city.

»For example, during the Bolsonaro years, Recife was one of the few cities where someone like me could walk around without problems wearing a red shirt, associated with the Trabajadores Party. The situation in São Paulo was very despicable. Recife was like a free zone for thinking. This is very inspiring to me.

Cinema de los setenta

P. It also has a small home in the cinemas of your city and in the films that are shown in the seventies. Is it a guide to your childhood?

R. Yes. As I said earlierwhen it comes to time markers. For example, Prophecy (Richard Donner) was born in 1976. He probably went to the São Luiz Cinema in February 1977, just as he was there Secret agent. So it is historically correct that it is shown during this year’s carnival.

»There are movies that aren’t there, but I remember the cards, like de Pasqualino: you are bellezas (1975), Lina Wertmüller. En cuanto a How to take down the world’s most famous secret agent (Philippe de Broca, 1973) was a movie my mother wanted to raise me in, but she was 18 and I was 10.

P. This movie is a drama, but also thriller and included in the price blaxploitation. Which films combined this variety with such a diverse mix of genres?

R. On the stage of the park he thought about the principles of the 1980sas The killer: El asesino del taladro (Abel Ferrara, 1979), en Shark (Steven Spielberg, 1975) incl. It is the desire to film in a certain way.

»If you’re going to use anamorficas lenses, here’s something interesting: use a travelno camera tires in hand all the time and much less drones because they didn’t exist in 1977. For example, in the scene I mention, we use one travel 25 meters to get altitude and proper movement. It was something muy old school.

P. Are the links displayed on the page or on the screen?

R. Mainly to write, but also during the trip. When shooting, I go back to films that I love and am happy with: “This is where this plan might work.

P. Coincidentally, the Brazilian film that was nominated made the Oscar for Best International Film last year. I’m still here (Walter Salles, 2024). Do you think these films help to understand the dictates politically?

R. Of course yes. Project I’m still here at a festival in Recife in front of a thousand people and I asked young people to say “I don’t know what happened in that saying”. Dictadura has sido borrada. So while movies don’t change the world, they do inform.

P. Why are there no soldiers in a movie set in a dictatorship?

R. Why? I wanted to show the logic of the timehere we see lower level corruption. For example, when I was a child, I played with adults many times
they suddenly lower their voices and then continue talking. You didn’t hear it because you don’t have any microphones. But that was everyone’s behavior at the time.

»For example, when Doña Sebastiana talks to her about the protagonist, one wonders, “What is he whispering?”. But It’s just my feeling that’s in the air.

P. There appears to be a complaint against the main women arrested. Just as Doña Sebastiana is, just as Doña Clara was.

R. Yes. I know a lot of women like that. I like strong mayors. Gesture Dona Klára (2016) Opposing the sale of her house by the sea to a real estate developer is highly symbolic because even when a woman refuses to do what society tells her, she is making a political gesture. They are not just viejitas. Let me take care of you.

P. What other aspects of the era would you like to remember?

R. I was most interested in the tone, the colors, the colors of the time, its logic.

»This movie It is not all accurate historical facts, including the climate of the time. And in the plot of the film it is concrete: the thief intends to steal oil from the gas station. The night watchman carries binoculars aimed at the thief, and since it’s carnival, Nadia comes to collect the body.

P. Secret agent highlights the differences between north and south in Brazil.

R. This is very strong in my country. Brazil was built wrong: everything was concentrated in the south-east and the north-east was considered overlooked, even though it was not true. In Brazil, the Northeast was saved by not being caught by Bolsonaro.

P. Are you happy with Lula now?

R. Yes, I am happy. But Lula is not magical. It is very difficult to restore something that has been destroyed.