If it had been up to us to award the Oscars...
Trying to offer a succinct summary of our favourite movie this season is no mean feat. For starters, its title notwithstanding, it is not a spy movie. It focusses on Marcelo, who returns to his hometown of Recife, where he moves into a very special shared housing project run by an elderly lady. He hopes to find his son in the city and intends to plan his escape from 1970s Brazil. Its enigmatic admixture of flashbacks, new encounters, constantly changing circumstances and fast-paced events makes this an enthralling, intelligently narrated and suspenseful movie.
"One of the best films of the year" THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
"An imposing materpiece" THE PLAYLIST
"Dazzling" VARIETY
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