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DecentGoodWatch scoreSummary
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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- Date night
- Friends night
- Drop-in friendly
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Audiences 64GoodWatch 61
IMDb6.4
Reach
To rent or buy in 4 countries
Released
1960
January 1, 1960
66 years ago
Genre
DocumentaryLanguage
French
Original language
Made in
Belgium
Directing · 3
- Luc de Heusch Director, Writer
- Jacques Delcorde Assistant Director, Writer
- Jacqueline Veuve Script Supervisor
Writing · 1
- Jean Raine Co-Writer
Camera · 4
- Frédéric Geilfus Director of Photography
- Oleg Tourjansky Director of Photography
- Jacques Moniquet Assistant Camera
- Fernand Tack Camera Operator
Editing · 2
- Suzanne Baron Editor
- Marie-Sophie Dubus Assistant Editor
Sound · 3
- Célestin Deliège Original Music Composer
- Antoine Bonfanti Sound Engineer
- Jean Velu Sound Engineer
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