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.
Direction
De Heusch lets Magritte's paintings do the talking.
Production
Intimate 1960 Brussels footage of the master at work.
Director
Luc de Heusch
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Magritte reportedly hated being filmed and only agreed to this documentary after years of refusal.
This rare footage influenced later surrealist documentaries and remains one of few records of Magritte speaking about his own work.
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