By Steve Pond

In a very competitive year for international films, the Brazilian drama “The Secret Agent” has made a statement by winning in the Best Foreign Language Film categories at the Critics Choice and Golden Globe Awards, and adding a Globes win for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama award by star Wagner Moura.

Director Kleber Mendonça Filho, a former film critic whose previous films include “Neighboring Sounds” and “Bacurau,” stars Moura as Armando, a man who has run afoul of powerful figures during Brazil’s military dictatorship of the 1970s, and who returns to his hometown of Recife under the assumed name Marcel. He broke down four of the film’s crucial scenes in a conversation with TheWrap.