Magritte or the Object Lesson
Jan 01 1960
•0h 14m
•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.
Cast
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Serge Sauvion
Self - Narrator (voice)
René Magritte
Self - Painter (uncredited)
Marcel Lecomte
Self - Writer (uncredited)
Louis Scutenaire
Self - Writer (uncredited)
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