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1001 movies to see before you die. Artistic, creative, experimental and visionary. Focused on images and juxtaposing them with others to create an experience. Saw on YouTube.
Rated 2.5/5 Stars •
Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars
01/31/24
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William L
Astonishing inventiveness for a director who was primarily a novelist, featuring clever use of angles, light, and perspective. Also, a couple times Peixoto just sort of picks the camera up and shakes it while looking at the ocean or a landscape, but hey, not every move can be perfect. Told predominantly through flashback, Limite gradually reveals the nature of his characters through small moments in their lives that have led to their present situation. It is focused almost entirely on the incidental - objects, nature, surroundings - and deliberately avoids a conventional plot. Dense and creative, the film doesn't seem to be really fully understandable on a first watch, but moves with deliberate weight and holds a place of honor among early experimental films. Definitely one to revisit for a fresh interpretation at some point in the future. (4/5)
Rated 4/5 Stars •
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
02/01/21
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Audience Member
This film 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 'Gymnopà (C)die', 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.
Rated 4/5 Stars •
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
02/02/23
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An amazing Brazilian silent, in which a man and two women are (without explanation) adrift at sea in a small boat, and each recalls some scenario from their past. This is the only film by Mario Peixoto, which is a damn shame because his work has a haunting poetry that immediately sucked me in and wouldn't let go. Along with cinematographer Edgar Brasil, he crafts shots that feel so intuitive that they seem like the film stock itself suggested them. I know that's a loopy and vague comment to make, but something about the way this movie was put together just sang to me... this thick air of melancholy and reverie and desperation. The music selection (Satie, Debussy, Stravisky, and more). A couple of parts were a bit sluggish, but I need to watch it when I'm a little less tired.
Rated 5/5 Stars •
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
01/17/23
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