Limite
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Mário Peixoto’s visually entrancing Brazilian classic was the director’s only film. A stunning silent poem inspired by a photograph by André Kertesz, Limite was described by Peixoto as ‘a tuning fork’ to capture the pitch of a moment in time, recounting a simple story of three people adrift on a boating trip. The first screening took place on May 17th 1931 in the Cinema Capitólio in Rio de Janeiro, a session organized by the Chaplin Club, which announced Limite as the first Brazilian film of pure cinema. It received favorable reviews from the critics who saw the film as an original Brazilian avant-garde production, but never made it into commercial circuits and over the years was screened only sporadically, as in 1942 when a special session was arranged for Orson Welles who was in South America for the shooting of his unfinished "It’ s All True" and for Maria Falconetti, lead actress of Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928). Due to various facts, Limite, sometimes referred to as the “unknown masterpiece” – an expression derived from Georges Sadoul who in 1960 had made an unsuccessful trip to Rio de Janeiro just to see the film – along with Mário Peixoto, became quite legendary subjects. (official distributor synopsis)
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Mario Peixoto
Brazil
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Limit (1931)