{{About|the 1976 film|the 2021 TV series|SurrealEstate}} {{one source|date=November 2016}}
{{Infobox film | name = Surreal Estate | image = | alt = | caption = | native_name = | director = Eduardo de Gregorio<ref name="surreal" /> | producer = | writer = Michael Graham<br />Eduardo de Gregorio | screenplay = | story = | based_on = <!-- {{based on |[title of the original work] |[writer of the original work]}} --> | starring = Bulle Ogier <br /> Leslie Caron <br /> Corin Redgrave <br /> Marie-France Pisier | narrator = | music = | cinematography = Ricardo Aronovich | editing = Alberto Yaccelini | studio = <!-- or: | production_companies = --> | distributor = | released = {{film date |1976|||France}} | runtime = 83 min | country = France | language = English <br /> French | budget = | gross = <!-- Please use condensed and rounded values, e.g. "£11.6 million" not "£11,586,221" --> }} '''''Surreal Estate''''' ({{langx|fr|Sérail}}) 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, Céleste (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.<ref name="surreal">Khan, Imran [http://www.popmatters.com/column/188902-surreal-estate-exploring-the-haunted-grounds-of-serail/ "Surreal Estate: Exploring the Haunted Grounds of Sérail"], ''PopMatters'', 20 January 2015. Retrieved on 20 November 2016.</ref>
== Cast == * Bulle Ogier as Ariane * Marie-France Pisier as Agathe * Corin Redgrave as Eric Sange * Leslie Caron as Céleste * 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 Rivette’s ''Céline and Julie Go Boating'' (1974), a film that dispensed with logic and chronology for a shattered perspective on cinematic narrative."<ref name="surreal" />
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==External links== *{{IMDb title|id=tt0075191|title=Surreal Estate}}
Category:French mystery films Category:1976 French films Category:Films scored by Michel Portal
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