Surreal Estate
By Eduardo de Gregorio
Country: France
Language: French
Casting: Leslie Caron, Bulle Ogier, Marie-France Pisier, Corin Redgrave, Marilyn Jones, Pierre Baudry
Production year: 1976
Runtime: 01h23
Production company: Filmoblic, Institut National de l'Audiovisuel (INA), Open Films
A novelist who’s out looking at real estate finds a huge, decaying old mansion in the woods. A girl named Arianne gives him a tour of the place, but halfway through she runs away and hides from him. He decides that the situation has potential for a novel, so he goes back to the house. This time there’s a maid, and a different girl named Agathe, who says no one named Arianne lives there. So, she shows him the house, and some things in it have changed. He thinks they’re trying to trick him. Then he comes back later and Arianne is there again, acting even crazier, showing him pictures on the walls which aren’t there. She seduces him.
Cannes 1976
