Magritte or the Object Lesson

5.8

1960

0h 14m

Released

Documentary

The surrealist painter René Magritte questions the objective reality and emphasizes the arbitrariness of the relationship between an object, its image and its name: the evocation of mystery consists of images of familiar things gathered or transformed in such a way that they no longer conform to our ideas, whether naive or wise.

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Director: Luc de Heusch

Cast: Serge Sauvion, René Magritte, Marcel Lecomte, Louis Scutenaire, Camille Goemans, Irène Hamoir