#877: PEIXOTO, Mário: Limite (1931)

PEIXOTO, Mário (Brazil)
Limite (1931)
Spine #877
Blu-ray


An astonishing creation, Limite is the only feature by the Brazilian director and author Mário Peixoto, made when he was just twenty-two years old, Inspired by a haunting André Kertész photograph on the cover of a French magazine, this avant-garde silent masterpiece centers on a man and two women lost at sea, their pasts unfolding through flashbacks propelled by the music of Erik Satie, Claude Debussy, Igor Stravinsky, and others. An early work of independent Latin American filmmaking, Limite was famously difficult to see for most of the twentieth century. It is a pioneering achievement that continues to captivate with its timeless visual poetry.

118 minutes
Black & White
Silent
1:33:1 aspect ratio
Criterion Release 2017
Director/Writers


Screenplay by Mário Peixoto.
Peixoto was 23 when he directed Limite.

The Film

A

Film Rating (0-60):

60

The Extras

The Booklet

Sixty-four page booklet featuring A Shared Mission, a foreward by Abbey Lustgarten, and Memory in the Present Tense, an essay by Fábio Andrade on Limite.

Commentary

None.

Introduction

To the film by World Cinema Project founder Martin Scorsese.

Interview

With filmmaker Walter Salles on Limite.

Extras Rating (0-40):

39

60 + 39 =

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