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  "path": "/issues/2026-3-14/cinema-paraiso",
  "publishedAt": "2026-03-14T00:00:00.000Z",
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  "textContent": "\n\n  Gabriel Leone as Bobbi, a young hit man, in Kleber Mendonça Filho’s _The Secret Agent._\n\n##### With its glory days as Brazil’s Hollywood long behind it, the northern city of Recife is having a film renaissance, powering productions such as the Oscar–nominated _The Secret Agent_\n\nBy Elena Clavarino\n\nIn the opening scene of _The Secret Agent,_ a fugitive living under the alias “Marcelo” drives along a sunbaked road through Brazil’s backcountry before pulling up at a gas station. The camera lingers, luxuriously, on the dilapidated roadside. Opposite the pump lies a dead body, haphazardly covered with half a sheet of cardboard and encircled by black flies. When Marcelo asks about it, the gas-station attendant shrugs. A station employee shot a thief three days earlier, he explains, then disappeared. He had called the police, but no one came. “Now it’s starting to smell,” he says. Ironically, two officers READ ON",
  "title": "Cinema Paraíso"
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