Limite

An astonishing creation, Limite is the only feature by the Brazilian director and author Mário Peixoto, made when he was just 22 years old. Inspired by a haunting André Kertész photograph on the cover of a French magazine, this avant-garde silent master­piece centres on a man and two women lost at sea, their pasts unfolding through flashbacks propelled by the music of Erik Satie, Claude Debussy, Igor Stravinsky, and others. An early work of independent South American filmmaking, Limite was famously difficult to see for most of the twentieth century. It is a pioneering achievement that continues to captivate with its timeless visual poetry.

Olga Breno

First woman

Tatiana Rey

Second woman

Raul Schnoor

First man

Brutus Pedreira

Second man

Carmen Santos

Woman eating a fruit

Mário Peixoto

Man sitting at the cemetery

Edgar Brasil

Man asleep in the theatre

Iolanda Bernardes

Woman at the sewing-machine