Movie: Magritte or the Object Lesson

Top 6 Billed Cast

Serge Sauvion
Serge Sauvion

Self - Narrator (voice)

René Magritte
René Magritte

Self - Painter (uncredited)

Marcel Lecomte
Marcel Lecomte

Self - Writer (uncredited)

Louis Scutenaire
Louis Scutenaire

Self - Writer (uncredited)

Camille Goemans
Camille Goemans

Self - Writer (uncredited)

Irène Hamoir
Irène Hamoir

Self - Writer (uncredited)

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    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.

  • Release Date

    1960-01-01

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    5.6

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    2.8 starts
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    Français
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