Pictures of Ghosts (2023)
Directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho
Downtown Recife’s classic movie palaces from the 20th century are mostly gone. That city area is now an archaeological site of sorts that reveals aspects of life in society which have been lost. And that’s just part of the story.
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What critics compared Pictures of Ghosts to
…those who’ve seen Filho’s Pictures of Ghosts will recognize the city and its architecture…
But his two latest movies, Pictures of Ghosts (2023) and The Secret Agent (2025), find themselves wandering around in the abyss, wondering what went wrong, why, and how.
…the playful, elegiac documentary “Pictures of Ghosts” (2023)…
Especially his previous film, the documentary Pictures Of Ghosts, which features a lot of archival footage, seems to hold The Secret Agent inside of it, like a Russian doll, or maybe it is the other way around, as both films inform each other so much.
The Secret Agent arrives two years after Filho’s Pictures of Ghosts, an intimate film about the movie palaces of his beloved Recife.
In that way, the film is a much more natural progression from “Pictures of Ghosts” than you might expect.