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Magritte or the Object Lesson

  • January 1960
  • 14mins

  • Documentary
  • Directed by

    Luc de Heusch,

    Starring

    Serge Sauvion,

    René Magritte,

    Marcel Lecomte,

    Louis Scutenaire

    ...

    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.