Is the movie Magritte or the Object Lesson available on Netflix, Disney+, Prime or Apple TV+?

At Stream Tracker, we like to peel back the familiar until it looks strange — which makes René Magritte's Magritte or the Object Lesson (1995) a perfect subject. The film follows the painter who keeps asking whether an object is ever simply itself, and how an image or a name can slip the moorings of everyday meaning: bowler hats, floating apples and anonymous pipes become small puzzles that refuse easy answers. Whether you’re hunting for it on Netflix, Disney+, Prime Video or Apple TV+, this article guides you through where the film currently lives and how its quiet surreal puzzles still unsettle the eye and the intellect.

Synopsis

René Magritte, the surrealist painter, undermines the idea of an objective reality by exposing the arbitrary ties between an object, its depiction, and its name. He summons mystery by assembling or transforming everyday images and objects so they refuse to fit our naive or learned expectations.

Release date

1995

Duration

1h 35min

Rating

Director

Lloyd Richards

Country

Genre(s)

Drame, Musique

Cast

Charles S. Dutton Alfre Woodard Carl Gordon Tommy Hollis Lou Myers Courtney B. Vance Zelda Harris