Mário Peixoto
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Born into a well-to-do Brazilian elite of the 1920s, Mário Peixoto turned his resources toward cinema and literature, crafting his sole film, the silent experimental piece Limite in 1930 and playing a minor on-screen role while also composing its eclectic score from Satie, Debussy, Stravinsky and others. The work, long thought lost, was rescued by critics in the 1970s, later hailed by the Cinemate…