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Three people (Raul Schnoor, Olga Breno and Tatiana Rey) sail aimlessly while remembering their past.Three people (Raul Schnoor, Olga Breno and Tatiana Rey) sail aimlessly while remembering their past.Three people (Raul Schnoor, Olga Breno and Tatiana Rey) sail aimlessly while remembering their past.
Brutus Pedreira
- Man #2
- (as D.G. Pedrera)
Iolanda Bernardes
- Woman at the Sewing Machine
- (uncredited)
Edgar Brasil
- Man Asleep in the Theatre
- (uncredited)
Mario Peixoto
- Man Sitting at the Cemetery
- (uncredited)
Carmen Santos
- Woman Eating a Fruit
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaCited by some as the greatest of all Brazilian films, this 120-minute, silent, and experimental feature by novelist and poet Mario Peixoto, who never completed another film, won the admiration of many, including Georges Sadoul, and Walter Salles. In 2015, it was voted number 1 on the Abraccine Top 100 Brazilian films list. It is considered to be a cult film. One hundred Brazilian professional critics voted in that poll.
- GoofsThe boat is clearly sitting on a stable base, as there is no motion of it relative to the overall surface of the water, even though the water is seen both flowing and showing slight swells.
- Alternate versionsThis film was published in Italy in the DVD anthology Un chien andalou (1929), distributed by DNA Srl. The film has been re-edited with the contribution of the film history scholar Riccardo Cusin. This version is also available in streaming on some platforms.
- ConnectionsFeatured in O Homem E o Limite (1975)
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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.
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- Apr 13, 2008
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- Runtime1 hour 54 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1
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