Magritte or the Object Lesson

La Leçon de choses ou Magritte

1960·14'

Luc de Heusch

Documentary

FR - French

Letterboxd TMDB #410076

Stills

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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.

Cast

Serge Sauvion Self - Narrator (voice) René Magritte Self - Painter (uncredited)

Marcel Lecomte Self - Writer (uncredited)

Louis Scutenaire Self - Writer (uncredited)

Camille Goemans Self - Writer (uncredited)

Irène Hamoir Self - Writer (uncredited)