Surreal Estate

An English novelist is lured, with disconcerting and disorienting results, into purchasing a crumbling mansion by what he imagines are the deliberately "literary" ploys of its housekeeper and two mysterious, lurking women.

Cast

Leslie Caron

as Céleste

Bulle Ogier

as Ariane

Marie-France Pisier

as Agathe

Corin Redgrave

as Eric Sange

Marilyn Jones

as Berthe

Pierre Baudry

as Bar Owner

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