Magritte or the Object Lesson

5.8/10 1960 4K 14 min

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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Magritte or the Object Lesson

Top Cast

Serge Sauvion

Serge Sauvion

Self - Narrator (voice)

René Magritte

René Magritte

Self - Painter (uncredited)

Marcel Lecomte

Marcel Lecomte

Self - Writer (uncredited)

Louis Scutenaire

Louis Scutenaire

Self - Writer (uncredited)

Camille Goemans

Camille Goemans

Self - Writer (uncredited)

Irène Hamoir

Irène Hamoir

Self - Writer (uncredited)

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