Limite is Mário Peixoto's only feature film, created when he was 22 years old. Inspired by a haunting André Kertész photograph on a French magazine cover, this avant-garde silent masterpiece centers on a man and two women adrift at sea. Their pasts emerge through flashbacks propelled by the music of Erik Satie, Claude Debussy, and Igor Stravinsky. Limite, an early independent South American film, was rare for most of the 20th century. Its ageless visual poetry still captivates.
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Limite is Mário Peixoto's only feature film, created when he was 22 years old. Inspired by a haunting André Kertész photograph on a French magazine cover, this avant-garde silent masterpiece centers on a man and two women adrift at sea. Their pasts emerge through flashbacks propelled by the music of Erik Satie, Claude Debussy, and Igor Stravinsky. Limite, an early independent South American film, was rare for most of the 20th century. Its ageless visual poetry still captivates.
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