Mário Peixoto

Limite

Archive 2005
Musée du Louvre
decemberdec 16 – 18

© Photo : D.R / Gruppo Novo de Cinema e TV ©

Brasil, 1931, black and white
Direction, Mário Peixoto
Music, Gérôme Nox. Auditorium du Louvre 's command.
Musical Interpretation, Gérôme Nox and Bruno Chevillon
With the help of MNAM / CCI, Centre Pompidou and AFAA
With the support of Sacem

Twenty-two-year-old filmmaker Mário Peixoto is said to have written this masterpiece of avant-garde cinema – the only movie he would ever make - in a burst of inspiration in a single night. The story is simple, yet compelling: three young people adrift on a shipwrecked boat in the middle of the ocean, abandoned to their fears and fantasies – and fate. Walter Salles hailed Limite as « a film of transcendent poetry and boundless imagination. »

In the same place

Musée du Louvre
novembernov 4 – 16

François Chaignaud
Petites joueuses

Dance

The Festival d'Automne continues, for the third year in a row, its partnership with the Louvre Museum. Together, they have been building up a collection of new contemporary performances dedicated to the museum and its works. On the occasion of the 'Figures du fou. Du Moyen âge aux romantiques' exhibition, which explores the subversive value of the foolish or the nonsensical in medieval society, the dancer and choreographer François Chaignaud brings us Petites joueuses. In this piece, an immersive and uninterrupted journey through the medieval Louvre, mutant and resonant creatures take over its fortifications, giving rise to a somewhat disturbing carnival.