The Countess of Baton Rouge (1997)
Overview
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.
Overview
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.
Genres
Release Date
September 17, 1997
Rating
Runtime
1h 34m
Robin Aubert
Rex Prince
Geneviève Brouillette
Paula Paul de Nerval
Isabel Richer
Fictionalized Paula Paul
David Boutin
Roy Tranquille
Frédéric Desager
The Great Zenon - The Cyclops
Gaston Lepage
Édouard Doré
France Castel
Nuna Breaux
Louise Marleau
Angèlie Temporel
Francine Ruel
Bébé Crocodile
Michèle-Barbara Pelletier
Julie Larousse
Marie Eykel
Marie L'Heureux (Passe-par-là)
Serge Bonin
Suzanne Cloutier
Virginie Beaufort
Shane Gilbeau
L'homme Sandwich
Mark Krasnoff
Canon Man
LaTitia-DeLaine
Beautiful Albino Woman
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