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Surreal Estate
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Wikipedia article
'Surreal Estate' is a 1976 French mystery film directed by Argentine filmmaker Eduardo de Gregorio, who is best known for his screenwriting work with Jacques Rivette.
Plot
'Surreal Estate' tells the story of Eric Sange (Corin Redgrave), an English novelist who, seeking to buy a house in France as an investment, discovers a run-down mansion inhabited by three strange women: Ariane (Rivette regular Bulle Ogier), Agathe (Marie-France Pisier), and their ostensible housekeeper, Cleste (Leslie Caron). Together, these women draw Eric into a gothic mystery that his own novelistic experience tells him is hackneyed, but which he nonetheless finds irresistible.Khan, Imran [http://www.popmatters.com/column/188902-surreal-estate-exploring-the-haunted-grounds-of-serail/ "Surreal Estate: Exploring the Haunted Grounds of Srail"], 'PopMatters', 20 January 2015. Retrieved on 20 November 2016.
Cast
* Bulle Ogier as Ariane
* Marie-France Pisier as Agathe
* Corin Redgrave as Eric Sange
* Leslie Caron as Cleste
* Marylin Jones as the waitress
* Pierre Baudry as the bar owner
Reception
Imran Khan of PopMatters says of the film: "Very much a film of its time, it helped to corner a market in French cinema that had seen a tiny flourish of fantasy-themed dramas first initiated by Jacques Rivettes 'Cline and Julie Go Boating' (1974), a film that dispensed with logic and chronology for a shattered perspective on cinematic narrative."
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