Surreal Estate

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Surreal Estate

1976

1h 23m

4.0(6 votes)

Drama

Fantasy

Overview

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.

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6 members

Acting

Leslie Caron

Céleste

Acting

Bulle Ogier

Ariane

Acting

Marie-France Pisier

Agathe

Acting

Corin Redgrave

Eric Sange

Acting

Marilyn Jones

Berthe

Writing

Pierre Baudry

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