Magritte or the Object Lesson
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.
- Year: 1960
- Country: Belgium
- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: RTBF, Ministère de l’Instruction publique
- Keyword: surrealism, essay film, french painter, short
- Director: Luc de Heusch
- Cast: Serge Sauvion, René Magritte, Marcel Lecomte, Louis Scutenaire, Camille Goemans, Irène Hamoir