
Magritte or the Object Lesson
Documentary
Overview
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.
Top Cast


Serge Sauvion
Serge Sauvion
Self - Narrator (voice)
Serge Sauvion
Self - Narrator (voice)


René Magritte
René Magritte
Self - Painter (uncredited)
René Magritte
Self - Painter (uncredited)
Marcel Lecomte
Marcel Lecomte
Self - Writer (uncredited)
Marcel Lecomte
Self - Writer (uncredited)
Louis Scutenaire
Louis Scutenaire
Self - Writer (uncredited)
Louis Scutenaire
Self - Writer (uncredited)
Camille Goemans
Camille Goemans
Self - Writer (uncredited)
Camille Goemans
Self - Writer (uncredited)
Irène Hamoir
Irène Hamoir
Self - Writer (uncredited)
Irène Hamoir
Self - Writer (uncredited)
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