Sérail (1976) AKA Surreal Estate

3.9
(14)

Eric is a novelist whose imagination is unusually powerful. While exploring a run-down mansion in the French countryside, looking for sites for his stories, he meets a girl dressed in clothes from another time. Returning to the site, he encounters a modern woman who says he probably met a ghost. He is fascinated by the situation which cannot be what it seems.

Director: Eduardo de Gregorio.
Stars: Leslie Caron, Bulle Ogier, Marie-France Pisier, Corin Redgrave, Marilyn Jones, Pierre Baudry. AKA Surreal Estate

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5 Comments

  1. James558
    January 29, 2019
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    Great, Jon! Thanks! Lots of great titles this week!

  2. Michael
    April 1, 2019
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    this film keeps on escaping me, thanks to the great man Jon. finally caught up with it.

  3. James V Ruocco
    August 28, 2022
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    A hypnotic piece of French cinema. Edgy. Dramatic. Alluring.

  4. Sarah Koch
    November 25, 2022
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    Love this film. The title, of course, is the French word for harem. The Henry James connection (“The Aspern Papers,” “The Ghostly Rental”} plus Lewis Carroll’s Alice Through the Looking Glass and Scheherazade/Arabian Nights makes for a marvelously complex and engrossing film. It’s well worth watching, imo.

  5. Eric Wall
    January 24, 2024
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    Great ghostly story.

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