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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.

14m1960TMDb 5.8

French

Crew and Cast

Storyline

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.

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Info

Original title
La Leçon de choses ou Magritte
Status
Released
Released
1 January 1960
Runtime
14m
TMDB score
5.8 / 10 (11 votes)

Production

Director
Luc de Heusch
Studios
RTBF, Ministère de l’Instruction publique
Countries
Belgium

Languages

Original
French
Spoken
French