Carmen Santos

"Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema."

Documentary on famous Brazilian actresses, female directors and the role of women in Brazilian film history.

In Rio de Janeiro, Gilberto (Celso Guimarães) is a talented artisan engaged of Marina (Lídia Mattos), working in a pottery factory. He is hired by the millionaire widow Luciana (Carmem Santos) to perform a restoration in her castle in Correas, a district of Petrópolis. He suffers an accident and Luciana lodges and treats him for a long period, and they fall in love for each other.

In Rio de Janeiro, Gilberto (Celso Guimarães) is a talented artisan engaged of Marina (Lídia Mattos), working in a pottery factory. He is hired by the millionaire widow Luciana (Carmem Santos) to perform a restoration in her castle in Correas, a district of Petrópolis. He suffers an accident and Luciana lodges and treats him for a long period, and they fall in love for each other.

Two young men from Paris bring "wonderful civilizing ideas" into the brain. But, as they returned without pity, they began to call for an auction of the furniture and objects of art that garrison their "garconiére", last vestige of the passage of opulence. The great idea would be to install a cabaret in the favela for tourists in search of new sensations and also for the inhabitants of the city. On the hill, one of the boys experiences the greatest surprise: he found there, living among the humble, teaching to read to the children, Rosinha, an enchanted little princess, queen of the hill.

Two young men from Paris bring "wonderful civilizing ideas" into the brain. But, as they returned without pity, they began to call for an auction of the furniture and objects of art that garrison their "garconiére", last vestige of the passage of opulence. The great idea would be to install a cabaret in the favela for tourists in search of new sensations and also for the inhabitants of the city. On the hill, one of the boys experiences the greatest surprise: he found there, living among the humble, teaching to read to the children, Rosinha, an enchanted little princess, queen of the hill.

Una creación asombrosa, Limite es el único largometraje del director y autor brasileño Mário Peixoto, realizado cuando tenía solo 22 años. Inspirada en una inquietante fotografía de André Kertész en la portada de una revista francesa, esta obra maestra muda de vanguardia se centra en un hombre y dos mujeres perdidos en el mar, cuyo pasado se revela a través de flashbacks impulsados ​​por la música de Erik Satie, Claude Debussy, Igor Stravinsky. , y otros. Limite, uno de los primeros trabajos del cine sudamericano independiente, fue famosamente difícil de ver durante la mayor parte del siglo XX. Es un logro pionero que continúa cautivando con su poesía visual atemporal.

In the beginning of the Twentieth Century, in Belo Horizonte, the industrial Sampaio lives in a manor house with his stepdaughter Carmen, who has a sort of engagement with Roberto...