The Countess of Baton Rouge
1997-09-17 | 94 minutes
Plot Summary
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.
Cast
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Robin AubertRex Prince
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Geneviève BrouillettePaula Paul de Nerval
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Isabel RicherFictionalized Paula Paul
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David BoutinRoy Tranquille
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Frédéric DesagerThe Great Zenon - The Cyclops
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Gaston LepageÉdouard Doré
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France CastelNuna Breaux
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Louise MarleauAngèlie Temporel
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Francine RuelBébé Crocodile
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Michèle-Barbara PelletierJulie Larousse
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Marie EykelMarie L'Heureux (Passe-par-là)
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Suzanne CloutierVirginie Beaufort
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