The Countess of Baton Rouge

The Countess of Baton Rouge (1997)

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.

star 5 6.2
  • Release Date: 1997-09-17
  • Runtime: 1h 34min
  • Director: André Forcier

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Cast

  • 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