Drawing attention to the colorful and challenging lives of the elderly, genre-bending The Mole Agent is a film that changed completely from initial concept to final product.“[It] started as a film noir documentary,” director Maite Alberdi said during the film’s panel at Deadline’s Contenders International. “It was a more serious film, a thriller about a detective.”After working as an assistant to a Chilean private eye, Alberdi planned to follow an undercover agent placed within a retirement home as the PI looked into accusations of elder abuse within the facility.
But everything changed when the detective’s go-to mole broke his hip, leading Alberdi to recruit an inexperienced octogenarian named Sergio for the job.“He was the worst spy in
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