Magritte or the Object Lesson (1960)

Name: Magritte or the Object Lesson
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1960-01-01
Duration: 14 min
Cast: Serge Sauvion, René Magritte, Marcel Lecomte, Louis Scutenaire, Camille Goemans

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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Released 1960-01-01 · 14 min · Documentary

Directed by Luc de Heusch

Cast

Serge Sauvion as Self - Narrator (voice)
René Magritte as Self - Painter (uncredited)
Marcel Lecomte as Self - Writer (uncredited)
Louis Scutenaire as Self - Writer (uncredited)
Camille Goemans as Self - Writer (uncredited)
Irène Hamoir as Self - Writer (uncredited)