Documentary · Belgium · 1960 · 14m

Magritte or the Object Lesson

La Leçon de choses ou Magritte

Magritte or the Object Lesson poster
Director
Luc de Heusch
Cast
Serge Sauvion as Self - Narrator (voice) René Magritte as Self - Painter (uncredited) Marcel Lecomte as Self - Writer (uncredited) Louis Scutenaire as Self - Writer (uncredited) Camille Goemans as Self - Writer (uncredited) Irène Hamoir as Self - Writer (uncredited)
Crew
Oleg Tourjansky — Director of Photography Frédéric Geilfus — Director of Photography Suzanne Baron — Editor Célestin Deliège — Original Music Composer Jacques Delcorde — Writer Luc de Heusch — Writer
Synopsis

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.

Mood & Themes
surrealismessay filmfrench paintershort film
Key Collaborators
Luc de Heusch Director Oleg Tourjansky Director of Photography Frédéric Geilfus Director of Photography Suzanne Baron Editor Célestin Deliège Original Music Composer Jacques Delcorde Writer Luc de Heusch Writer
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