The Secret Agent

...will stay with you long after the credits, reminding us that courage often hides in the quiet acts of ordinary people forced to live extraordinary lives.

The film is fascinated with the ways in which cinema, politics, and personal history co-mingle.

Once in a while, you see a movie that doesn’t feel made, but extracted from a dreaming mind.

That striking foresight to speak to the here and now via a character study mostly unfolding half a century ago is what makes “The Secret Agent” a formidable achievement.

Like carnival itself, The Secret Agent sucks you in and buffets you along, with every swing and sway making it harder not to submit.