Limite
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.
Limite was restored in 2010 by the Cinemateca Brasileira and the Cineteca di Bologna/L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory, in association with The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project, Arquivo Mario Peixoto, Saulo Pereira de Mello, and Walter Salles. Restoration funded by Armani, Cartier, Qatar Airways, and Qatar Museum Authority.
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Collector's Set
Cast
- Olga Breno
- Woman 1
- Taciana Rei
- Woman 2
- Carmen Santos
- Dockside prostitute
- Raul Schnoor
- Man 1
- D. G. Pedrera
- Man 2
- Mário Peixoto
- Man in graveyard
- Edgar Brasil
- Sleeping spectator
Credits
- Director
- Mário Peixoto
- Screenplay
- Mário Peixoto
- Cinematography
- Edgar Brazil
- Editors
- Mário Peixoto
- Editors
- Edgar Brazil
- Assistants
- Rui Cósta
- Assistants
- Brutus Pedreira
- Lighting
- Edgar Brasil
- Score
- Brutus Pedreira
- Music by
- Erik Satie
- Music by
- Claude Debussy
- Music by
- Sergei Prokofiev
- Music by
- Maurice Ravel
- Music by
- Igor Stravinsky
- Music by
- Alexander Borodin
- Music by
- César Franck
A scene from Limite
