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For this Friday Movie Night, first up is The Secret Agent (2025), a Brazilian political thriller set in 1977, during Brazil’s military dictatorship about a researcher with a violent, who moves from Sao Paolo to Recife to hide from the powers-that-be, who consider him an enemy of the state, and have sent agents and mercenaries after him. This arrangement comes to a head during Carnivale week. Reviews compare this to Promising Young Woman (2020) often. Director Kleber Mendonca Filho previously did Bacurau (2019) and Aquarius (2016), both of which we previously watched. It has been nominated for the Best Picture Oscar this yea, and received ravie reviews. Let’s check it out.
After that is The Long Day Closes (1992), a British LGBT-themed slice of life about an eleven-year-old boy in 1950s Liverpool who is obsessed with movies, and uses them as his refuge from his alienation at school and at home. What could be causing him not to fit in? Could he be gay? I guess we’ll find out. The film progresses in dreamlike, stream-of-consciousness fashion, mixing together the clips and audio from the movies he watches with the events his own life. This is arguably the magnum opus of director Terence Davies, who also did the similar-themed Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988), which we have not yet watched. This is one of the highest-rated British films on Letterboxd.
We’ll start at 8PM EST on Blorptube, right here:
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Be there, comrades!
Letterboxd:
- The Secret Agent: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-secret-agent-2025/
- The Long Day Closes: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-long-day-closes/
Doesthedogdie.com links:
- The Secret Agent: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/1575873
- The Long Day Closes: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/36849
CWs for The Secret Agent:
- Child abandonment.
- Someone leaves without saying goodbye.
- Stalking.
- Cruelty to animals.
- Animal corpses.
- Bugs.
- Sharks.
- Deaths of animals.
- Mention of sexual assault. Not depicted.
- Someone is physically restrained.
- Eye mutilation.
- Blood and gore.
- Body horror.
- Amputation.
- Death of parent.
- Natural bodies of water.
- Audio gore.
- Spitting.
- Needles.
- Hospital scene.
- Shaky cam.
- Jump scares.
- Screaming.
- Profanity.
- Someone is watched without their knowledge.
- Homophobia.
- Hate speech.
- Antisemitism.
- Fat jokes.
- Sex.
- Nudity.
- Honking horns.
- Screeching tires.
- Gun violence.
- Sad ending.
CWs for The Long Day Closes:
- Child abuse.
- Blood and gore.
- Hate speech.
- Hand damage.
- Bullying.
- Screaming.
- Discussion of religion.
- Jump scares.
Links to movies:
- The Secret Agent: https://tankie.tube/w/g6wTbrbAHasbsSNWv1FmRp
- The Long Day Closes: https://tankie.tube/w/uWvSURWnCAH52qdSN9N5T6
