Limit
Límite

Section
THE MODERNS: The eternal present of silent films
Country
Brazil
Year
1931
Runtime
114 min.
Production
Cinédia [br]
Director
Mário Peixoto
Writer
Mário Peixoto
Photographer
Edgar Brasil
Producer
-
Cast
Olga Breno Tatiana Rey Raul Schnoor Brutus Pedreira Carmen Santos Mario Peixoto Edgar Brasil Iolanda Bernardes
Limit

 

In a drifting small boat, two women and a man recall their recent past. One of the women escaped from prison; the other one was desperate; and the man had lost his lover. They have no further strength or desire to live and have reached the limit of their existences. LIMIT can be seen as an effort to explore the visual possibilities, the experimental techniques and the rhythmic variations of the filmic medium in the context of a sometimes melancholic and sometimes aggressive statement about the limitation and the futility of human existence.