{"id":22586,"date":"2023-03-22T16:30:10","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T16:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=22586"},"modified":"2024-01-19T19:57:16","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T19:57:16","slug":"rene-magritte-cineaste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2023\/03\/22\/rene-magritte-cineaste\/","title":{"rendered":"Ren\u00e9 Magritte, Cin\u00e9aste"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The title at the Internet Archive has this one as “Magritte Home Movies” which is a more accurate description than the title of the film itself. Ren\u00e9 Magritte, Cin\u00e9aste<\/em><\/a> was apparently made in 1975 (although the print bears a copyright date for 1989), being a compilation of films from the late 1950s made in and around the Magritte household by Ren\u00e9 and wife Georgette (plus LouLou the Pomeranian) with contributions from friends in the Brussels art world: ELT Mesens (an artist who was later a member of the British Surrealist Group), Paul Colinet (artist), Louis Scutenaire (poet), Ir\u00e8ne Hamoir (writer), Marcel Lecomte (writer), and others.<\/p>\n

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The film opens with some contextual narration in French but the rest of the footage is soundless with a simple musical accompaniment. As with many home movies there’s a lot of mugging and dressing-up for the camera. What you don’t get in similar films is the setups that involve either quotes of Magritte’s paintings or the paintings themselves. If you’re familiar with the art then some of the props are also familiar, such as the plaster head (or heads) from the various versions of La M\u00e8moire<\/em>, and the euphonium which in its painted form Magritte often showed in flames. The most Surrealist sequence is Le Dessert des Antilles<\/em>, a Cocteau-like experiment with reverse-motion. Where Cocteau preferred to show a flower being pieced together from its constituent parts, Magritte has Ir\u00e8ne Hamoir regurgitating a banana, bite by bite, which is then presented unpeeled to her husband, Louis Scutenaire. (This sequence has been flipped horizontally. A duplicate copy here<\/a> shows the original title card.)<\/p>\n

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\n\u2022 Magritte: The False Mirror<\/a>
\n\u2022 Magritte, ou la lecon de chose<\/a>
\n\u2022 Ren\u00e9 Magritte album covers<\/a>
\n\u2022 Monsieur Ren\u00e9 Magritte, a film by Adrian Maben<\/a>
\n\u2022 George Melly\u2019s Memoirs of a Self-Confessed Surrealist<\/a>
\n\u2022 The Secret Life of Edward James<\/a>
\n\u2022 Ren\u00e9 Magritte by David Wheatley<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The title at the Internet Archive has this one as “Magritte Home Movies” which is a more accurate description than the title of the film itself. Ren\u00e9 Magritte, Cin\u00e9aste was apparently made in 1975 (although the print bears a copyright date for 1989), being a compilation of films from the late 1950s made in and … Continue reading “Ren\u00e9 Magritte, Cin\u00e9aste”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New blog post: Ren\u00e9 Magritte, Cin\u00e9aste","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,7,44,18],"tags":[12407,9305,12727,132,12726,12728,12725,115],"class_list":["post-22586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-film","category-painting","category-surrealism","tag-elt-mesens","tag-georgette-magritte","tag-irene-hamoir","tag-jean-cocteau","tag-louis-scutenaire","tag-marcel-lecomte","tag-paul-colinet","tag-magritte"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-5Si","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}