Magritte or the Object Lesson

• 5.6 Documentary
• 1960-01-01
• 14 minutes mins

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.

Starring:

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))

Director:

Luc de Heusch

Writer:

Jacques Delcorde Luc de Heusch