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Magritte or the Object Lesson

La Leçon de choses ou Magritte

1960 · 0h 14m · Documentary · Belgium

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.

Directed by
Luc de Heusch
Written by
Jacques Delcorde, Luc de Heusch
Starring
Serge Sauvion, René Magritte, Marcel Lecomte, Louis Scutenaire
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