Magritte or the Object Lesson
MovieTitle | La Leçon de choses ou Magritte |
User score | 5.6 |
Release date | Jan 1, 1960 |
Genre | Documentary |
Director | Luc de Heusch |
Production country | Belgium |
Production companies | RTBF, Ministère de l’Instruction publique |
Run time | 14 min. |
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.