Kleber Mendonça Filho, from ‘The Secret Agent’, criticizes Globo after criticism

Kleber Mendonça Filho participated, this Tuesday, 28th, in the premiere of The Secret Agentin São Paulo. The feature film is the Brazilian representative in the Oscar race. In conversation with the press, the director from Pernambuco refuted comments that his films would be regional. “I never saw myself and placed myself as regional. I am part of Brazil. (…) Brazil needs to listen to itself more. There is a whole assembly of our country, which was an economic, political and cultural assembly, which gave a lot of strength to what is done in the Southeast. My point of view is Brazilian, based in Recife, Pernambuco, so I don’t think it makes any sense to call anything that is not from the Southeast region regional. In fact, for me, regional were the Globo soap operas that I grew up watching. They were regional because they were set in Barra de Tijuca and I didn’t know what Barra da Tijuca was. It must be an interesting region.”