René Magritte
Acting
Biography
No biography available for René Magritte.
Born: November 21, 1898
Place of Birth: Lessines, Belgium
Known For
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
Jazz and decolonization are intertwined in a powerful narrative that recounts one of the tensest episodes of the Cold War.
Fantômas: A Thoroughly Modern Villain
The story of Fantômas, the first villain of modernity, from his birth in 1911 as a novel character to his contemporary vicissitudes, passing through Louis Feuillade, André Hunebelle, surrealism and Moscow.
Monsieur René Magritte
Documentary about the Belgian surrealist artist who died in 1967.
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.
Un Week-end avec Monsieur Magritte : Tome 1, Samedi
The first part of a Magritte portrait, mainly compiled from fragments of staged enactments of situations, which Magritte recorded with, among others, Georgette Magritte, Paul Colinet, Irène Hamoir and Scutenaire, playfully described by the latter as "une histoire érotico-fantastico-iconoclaste".
Filmography
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self - Painter (uncredited)