Once almost exclusively the domain of English-language cinema, the last few years have seen films from South Korea, Japan, Germany, France, Norway and Brazil all competing for the top prize – with the latter two nations included in this year's impressive shortlist.
It's a superb film – perhaps even the best of all the nominees – and speaking to Radio Times last month, Moura explained how the Academy's embrace of international cinema was something that he very much welcomed.
He added that since Bong Joon-ho's Parasite won best picture in 2020 he had seen audiences become much more open to the idea of watching film and TV with subtitles.
"When we did Narcos, for example, that was only 10 years ago [and] we would ask ourselves, 'Oh, would Americans read subtitles? I don't think they will, I don't think they're used to that,'" he recalled. "And now it’s a given, right? Like, people read subtitles and they see international and I think that's great."
"My understanding of what England is has a lot to do with Mike Leigh or Ken Loach," he said. "And I think that that's great. My understanding of what the US is comes from the films and series that I saw when I was a boy.
He continued: "So I think that it shapes culture, right? It shapes the understanding that people have of a nation, and no country develops without that.
Bringing things back to The Secret Agent, Moura thought it would be "fascinating" for people overseas to see all the specific cultural details included in the film which related to the city of Recife in the 1970s.
"Before, if I wanted to see an Iranian film, I would have to go to a movie theatre at a very specific time, at a very specific place," he said. Now I can just turn on my TV and go to the Criterion Collection and see Abbas Kiarostami's films. And so I think that's a good thing. One of the good things that I think that technology brings to the world."
View Green Video on the source website"Since we got rid of the fascist government [led by Jair Bolsonaro], that is in jail right now, we now have, again, a president and a government that likes culture," he said.
As for whether he had any recommendations for film fans to check out if they were just getting into Brazilian cinema, Moura reeled off a long list of options.
"And back in the '60s we had this movement called Cinema Novo, that was hugely influenced by Italian neorealism and the French New Wave and that idea that cinema was revolutionary.
"And we produced so many great titles, like there's this great director called Glauber Rocha, that directed a film that I'm fascinated by called, Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol... it's called in English, I think it's Black Devil, White God. [There are] many!"
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