Magritte or the Object Lesson

1960 • 0h 14m • Documentary

5.8(11 votes)

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.

Director

Luc de Heusch

Writers

Jacques Delcorde, Luc de Heusch

Status

Released