Limite
Limite, the sole feature-length film by the Brazilian filmmaker and novelist Mário Peixoto, was made while he was barely 22 years old. This avant-garde silent masterwork, inspired by a haunting portrait by André Kertész on the cover of a French magazine, centers on a man and two women adrift at sea, their pasts revealing through flashbacks propelled by the music of Erik Satie, Claude Debussy, Igor Stravinsky, and others. Limite, an early independent South American film, was notoriously difficult to view for the majority of the twentieth century. It is a groundbreaking work whose eternal visual poetry continues to captivate.
Released: 1931-05-17