Mário Peixoto's lone feature film, Limite, was made while he was just 22 years old, and it is a stunning achievement. French magazine cover shot inspired this avant-garde silent masterwork, which tells the story of a stricken man and two ladies adrift at sea, their pasts unraveling through the music of Erik Satie, Igor Stravinsky, Claude Debussy and others. To this day, Limite remains one of the most difficult independent South American films ever made. It's a groundbreaking work whose eternal visual poetry continues to captivate.
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Mário Peixoto's lone feature film, Limite, was made while he was just 22 years old, and it is a stunning achievement. French magazine cover shot inspired this avant-garde silent masterwork, which tells the story of a stricken man and two ladies adrift at sea, their pasts unraveling through the music of Erik Satie, Igor Stravinsky, Claude Debussy and others. To this day, Limite remains one of the most difficult independent South American films ever made. It's a groundbreaking work whose eternal visual poetry continues to captivate.
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