Magritte or the Object Lesson (1960)
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
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Serge Sauvion as Self - Narrator (voice) |
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René Magritte as Self - Painter (uncredited) |
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Marcel Lecomte as Self - Writer (uncredited) |
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Louis Scutenaire as Self - Writer (uncredited) |
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Camille Goemans as Self - Writer (uncredited) |
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Irène Hamoir as Self - Writer (uncredited) |
| Directing | Luc de Heusch | Director |
| Editing | Marie-Sophie Dubus | Assistant Editor |
| Editing | Suzanne Baron | Editor |
| Sound | Jean Velu | Sound Engineer |
| Writing | Jean Raine | Co-Writer |
| Camera | Fernand Tack | Camera Operator |
| Sound | Antoine Bonfanti | Sound Engineer |
| Directing | Jacqueline Veuve | Script Supervisor |
| Camera | Jacques Moniquet | Assistant Camera |
| Directing | Jacques Delcorde | Assistant Director |
| Sound | Célestin Deliège | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Oleg Tourjansky | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Jacques Delcorde | Writer |
| Writing | Luc de Heusch | Writer |
| Camera | Frédéric Geilfus | Director of Photography |