An English novelist is lured, with disconcerting and disorienting results, into purchasing a crumbling ghostly mansion by what he imagines are the deliberately 'literary' ploys of its housekeeper (Leslie Caron) and two mysterious, lurking women. SURREAL ESTATE is a continuation of the Henry James dreamworld in Jacques Rivette's Celine & Julie Boating (1974), directed by the latter's screenwriter, Argentinian surrealist Eduardo de Gregorio! -- Church of Film