The Countess of Baton Rouge (1997)
Synopsis
In a style evocative of Fellini at his most surreal, this bizarre French Canadian fantasy follows the romance between a young filmmaker and a bearded lady from a local circus during the 1960s. The story begins in a contemporary theater where a projectionist describes, to movie director Rex Prince, the ghostly spirit that seems to be haunting his film. The story then races backward to the 1960s when a half-mad, idealistic Rex was busily making his first film, a Marxist tract depicting poverty in Montreal. Edouard Dore, a well-connected editor works with him and it is he who takes Rex to a carnival late one night to meet the performers in a freakshow. The first person Rex meets is Le Grand Zenon, a hulking one-eyed fellow with the amazing ability to use his eye to project movie images on a screen with neither a projector nor film.
Release Date: 1997-09-17
Runtime: 94 minutes
Director: André Forcier
Top Cast
- Robin Aubert as Rex Prince
- Geneviève Brouillette as Paula Paul de Nerval
- Isabel Richer as Fictionalized Paula Paul
- David Boutin as Roy Tranquille
- Frédéric Desager as The Great Zenon - The Cyclops
- Gaston Lepage as Édouard Doré
- France Castel as Nuna Breaux
- Louise Marleau as Angèlie Temporel
- Francine Ruel as Bébé Crocodile
- Michèle-Barbara Pelletier as Julie Larousse
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