The Countess of Baton Rouge

The Countess of Baton Rouge (1997)

RomanceComedy

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.

Director: André Forcier

Casts

	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
	Marie Eykel as Marie L'Heureux (Passe-par-là)
	Serge Bonin as
	Suzanne Cloutier as Virginie Beaufort
	Shane Gilbeau as L'homme Sandwich
	Mark Krasnoff as Canon Man
	LaTitia-DeLaine as Beautiful Albino Woman

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