Mário Peixoto
| Mário Peixoto | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Mário Rodrigues Breves Peixoto March 25, 1908 Brussels, Belgium |
| Died | February 3, 1992 (aged 83) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Occupation | Editor |
Mário Rodrigues Breves Peixoto (Brussels, Belgium March 3, 1908 – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil February 3, 1992) was a Brazilian film director, mainly known for his only film Limite, a silent experimental film filmed in 1930 and premiered in Rio de Janeiro on 17 May 1931. Peixoto wrote, directed and took up a minor role in the film. Its musical score include Eric Satie, Claude Debussy, Alexander Borodin, Igor Stravinsky, Sergei Prokofiev and César Franck.
The single-handedly achievement of a member of the well-to-do élite of 1920s Brazil, Limite became over the years almost a myth — its only copy being almost lost during the 1950s, were it not to be restored thanks to the personal efforts of two 1970s critics — and the object of various legends, many of them put into circulation by Peixoto himself. One such legend referred to a bogus complimentary article about the film ("A film from South America"), that had supposedly been written by Sergei Eisenstein and published, in English translation, in the trendy Londoner magazine Tatler. Only after Peixoto admmited, shortly before his death, that he had himself written the supposed "Portuguese translation" of "Eisenstein's" article, was the general credence given to this legend in Brazil withdrawn.
Nevertheless, the restoration of the surviving copy and renewed viewing in the 1970s and 1980s restored interest in the actual movie. In 1988, the Cinemateca Brasileira named it the best Brazilian film of all time. In 1995 Limite was once again declared as such, according to a national inquiry held by the newspaper Folha de S.Paulo.
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