Limite (1931)

User Rating:

7.8/10   

Director:

Mario Peixoto

Writer:

Mario Peixoto (writer)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

Three people sail aimlessly while remembering their past.

Plot Keywords:

Boat | Prison Escape | Threesome | Handcuffs | Only Film By Director

Cast

Iolanda Bernardes
Edgar Brasil
Olga Breno	...	Woman nr. 1
Brutus Pedreira	...	Man nr. 2
Mario Peixoto
Tatiana Rey	...	Woman nr. 2
Carmen Santos
Raul Schnoor	...	Man nr.1

Also Known As:

Limit

Runtime:

120 min

Country:

Brazil

Language:

Portuguese

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Silent | Mono

Filming Locations:

Mangaratiba, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Company:

Cinédia

Trivia:

Has been called the Un chien andalou (1929) of Latino cinema.

Movie Connections:

Features The Adventurer (1917/I)

Limit

'Limite' is a great, poetic, inspiring mystery ride. I dare to say that it is the visually best film I've seen from that era. The slow, unique pace and the repeating structure of its main musical motif, Erik Satie's theme 'Gymnopédie', intensify the suggestive effect of the immensely beautifully captured images in a magnificent montage and unfolds one of the great philosophical questions of the 20th century: the unsolvable contradiction between transience of human life and the eternity of the universe. The story is hard to access, because Peixoto almost always works with flashbacks and rare title links, so we have to solve the puzzle for our own. Nevertheless, it's the imagery that is so fascinating, full of suicidal feelings, desperateness, tristesse and wonderfully compositions of nature - trees, foggy landscapes, waves. An unparalleled cinematic experience I will not forget and of course highly recommended.