The Countess of Baton Rouge backdrop
The Countess of Baton Rouge poster
Trailer
The Countess of Baton Rouge
5.0
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1h 34m
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1997
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Released
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.

Cast
Robin Aubert poster
Robin Aubert
Rex Prince
Geneviève Brouillette poster
Geneviève Brouillette
Paula Paul de Nerval
Isabel Richer poster
Isabel Richer
Fictionalized Paula Paul
David Boutin poster
David Boutin
Roy Tranquille
Frédéric Desager poster
Frédéric Desager
The Great Zenon - The Cyclops
Gaston Lepage poster
Gaston Lepage
Édouard Doré
France Castel poster
France Castel
Nuna Breaux
Louise Marleau poster
Louise Marleau
Angèlie Temporel
Francine Ruel poster
Francine Ruel
Bébé Crocodile
Michèle-Barbara Pelletier poster
Michèle-Barbara Pelletier
Julie Larousse
Mark Krasnoff poster
Mark Krasnoff
Dudley Fuselier
Lyne Rodier poster
Lyne Rodier
Biz Prince
Marie Eykel poster
Marie Eykel
Marie L'Heureux (Passe-par-là)
Cédric Noël poster
Cédric Noël
M. Beaufort
Suzanne Cloutier poster
Suzanne Cloutier
Virginie Beaufort
Serge Bonin poster
Serge Bonin
François L'Écuyer poster
François L'Écuyer
Étienne
Shane Gilbeau poster
Shane Gilbeau
L'homme Sandwich
Michel Côté poster
Michel Côté
(uncredited)

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