Limite (1931)
Sat rip | 116 min | XviD 656x480 | 1502 kb/s | 256 kb/s AC3 | 25 fps | 1.42 GB + 3% recovery
Silent /w Portuguese intertitles | Subtitles: French (hardcoded) + English and Spanish .srt | Genre: Classics/Experimental | MU/RS
The theme of Limite is stated in its title - the limits faced by man in the struggle for existence. The narrative concerns three shipwrecked people, two women and a man adrift in a small boat on the open sea. In a series of flashbacks, they reveal to each other their stories and what they were trying to escape when they took flight on the ship. The first woman (Olga Breno) escaped from prison with the help of her jailer but her life remained unhappy in the new town where she was trapped in a monotonous job as a seamstress. The second woman (Taciana Rey) was unhappily married to a drunken silent film pianist (Brutus Pedreira), who is shown accompanying Chaplin’s The Adventurer in the town’s small theatre. The man (Raul Schnoor) was a widower who had a love affair with a married woman. When he visited his wife’s grave, he encountered his lover’s husband (played by Peixoto himself) who told him that she had leprosy. The life boat in which they have taken refuge begins leaking...
A Brazilian filmmaker who became a legend on the basis of one extraordinary film he made at the age of 22, the only one he would ever direct, Mário Peixoto was born on March 25, 1908. Over the years, Peixoto gave different responses as to the place of his birth, sometimes saying it was Brussels, Belgium, and other times that it was Tijuca, a section in Rio de Janeiro. This was the first of many mysteries in which he shrouded himself during his life. But his antecedents are clear enough, as he came from a wealthy Brazilian family long prominent in the nation. He had the advantage of a European education in the 1920s and was clearly receptive to the modernist, avant-garde artistic movements then sweeping the Continent and profoundly influencing its cinema.
Source: My rip of the DVD shared by MARCOS. This is an Arte broadcast, but no logo is visible.
Límite es un original film vanguardista brasileño; se trata de una obra enormemente influenciada por las vanguardias europeas, especialmente la francesa, aunque con evidentes inspiraciones cinematográficas de filmografías como la alemana y la rusa. Límite fue realizado durante la época de transición entre el cine silente y el sonoro y estamos ante una obra que fascina al público desde el mismo momento en que comienza. Tres personas se hayan, sin comida, en un bote a la deriva; cada uno de esos personajes tiene un particular pasado... así de sencilla es la trama del film y aunque parezca simple no estamos ante una historia fácil ciertamente... Y es que la maestría de Peixoto narrando y entrelazando las diferentes historias de los solitarios protagonistas del film es realmente destacable, sobre todo gracias a una compleja y soberbia narrativa cinematográfica.
Limite é uma obra-prima e considerados por muitos, o melhor e mais belo filme do cinema brasileiro. Sua trama é muito simples, porém as imagens são impressionantes, parecendo uma poética exibição de quadros em movimento devido ao seu enquadramento e ângulos de câmera inusitados. O ritmo é muito lento e algumas vezes o espectador pode se sentir cansado, mas vale a pena ver. A trilha sonora, com magníficas músicas de Borodin, Cesar Frank, Debussy, Prokofieff, Ravel, Satie e Strawinsky, adequa-se perfeitamente ao filme.
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