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Limite

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1h 54m
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Rated 16 Sep 2010
89
92nd
An amazing silent, in which a man and two women are adrift at sea. 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. 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.
Rated 26 Sep 2018
81
65th
A boundary-breaking visual masterpiece that pushes toward a more vibrant and evocative cinematic language with every shot. Through extreme close-ups, handheld camerawork, and inventive angles, each shot is meticulously composed not for efficiency or clarity but for maximum artistic impact, and as such, it's one of the purest examples of cinematic poetry of its era. It remains a surprising technical achievement decades ahead of its time, even if its traditional elements are far less coherent.
Rated 05 Jan 2011
84
77th
Slightly long for what it is but the images are very beautiful, serene with a touch of melancholy.
Rated 20 Jan 2007
100
99th
Limite estreava há 90 anos no Rio de Janeiro. Pico do experimentalismo dos anos 30. É como se Maya Deren e Orson Welles se encontrassem antes mesmo de sonharem em ser cineastas. BlurayRip no MakingOff.
Rated 02 Mar 2008
68
48th
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Rated 22 Feb 2016
18
96th
Star Rating: ★★★★★
Rated 13 Mar 2016
10
96th
Many frames are shot from a low angle so that whatever is captured on screen often looms large above (and over) you, conveying a feeling of size and scope that gives the film an almost spiritual kind of power. It often feels like an Amazonian Chirico painting, wherein individuals roam about in a lost world, swallowed by the largeness and mystery of their environment. There's also a great sadness at the core of the film, like a kind of elegy or lamentation, which resonated deeply with me.
Rated 06 Apr 2016
50
38th
An early example of very rigid formalism, Limite has very little speech, and experiments with time, narrative structure, composition, camera movement and angle, but does it all within an unwavering conceptual scheme. It's easy to see what made it influential, and many viewers still seem deeply affected by it. For me, it didn't really offer the meaningful experience I look for in a film.
Rated 02 Dec 2011
61
22nd
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Rated 19 Dec 2008
66
32nd
683
Rated 15 Oct 2015
90
95th
The sense of despair is brought by the dozens of shots that must have been directed by a ghost -- they roam through legs, feet, faces, trees and flowers, close-up on desperate faces or nature details. Limite is a work arranged by the memories of two women and one man that drift on a boat. But it's actually all about just movement.
Rated 07 Mar 2010
9
97th
Haunting, beautiful, poetic, and all kinds of other great adjectives, but it was too experimental for me to get entirely involved.
Rated 12 Dec 2012
40
58th
A little too arty for me to fully understand what was going on, but by all means a beautiful silent from Brazil.
Rated 24 Jun 2013
84
79th
Beautiful score and visuals. Sometimes I don't get much from the things Peixoto pulls of though other that "Wow, that was pretty.". Peixoto is clearly very interested in nature as well as the people he portrays but I don't get much of a connection between the people and the nature surrounding them at times. This leaves it a bit unfocused e.g. "ok here I'm showing you a tormented man but oh look at that plant over there!". The second half of the movie is better in this regard however.
Rated 15 Jan 2010
63
26th
732
Rated 22 Jul 2018
85
87th
A poem like riddle perhaps? Or a riddle like poem. That is very very sad.
Rated 03 Jun 2019
50
34th
A lot of great imagery and scenery but the story, what little there is just wasn't interesting and failed to hold my attention. I also felt it was an hour too long.
Rated 10 Dec 2022
70
41st
This is a really interesting piece, especially for the time. The camerawork and composition, etc, all feel way ahead of their time, and this kind of more abstract filmmaking was also pretty unusual for the period. It didn't do much for me narratively, but it has a vibe that I was pretty into. Probably overlong, though, for what it is.
Rated 14 May 2023
60
20th
Great piece of formal and narrative experimentation, but almost unbearably boring to watch
Rated 09 Jul 2023
57
60th
okay film

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