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The Countess of Baton Rouge (1997)
Directed by André Forcier
Romance, Comedy · 1h 34m
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
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)
Crew
- Director
- André Forcier
- Writer
- André Forcier
- Director of Photography
- André Turpin
- Original Music Composer
- Michel Cusson
- Editor
- Richard Comeau
Details
- Original title
- La comtesse de Bâton Rouge
- Release date
- 1997-09-17
- Runtime
- 1h 34m
- Genres
- Romance, Comedy
- Original language
- FR
- Spoken languages
- French
- Countries
- Canada
- Production
- Max Films