Limite

Mário Peixoto’s visually entrancing Brazilian classic was the director’s only film. It is a stunning silent poem, inspired by a photograph by André Kertesz. The first screening took place on May 17th 1931, and won the film acclaim as an original Brazilian avant-garde production. This unknown masterpiece recounts a simple story of three people adrift on a boating trip, and was announced as the first Brazilian film of the pure cinema. Peixoto himself described Limite as “a tuning fork” to capture the pitch of a moment in time. red