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The Countess of Baton Rouge

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.

1997 |1h 34m |  Romance, Comedy

Cast

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Robin Aubert

Rex Prince

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Geneviève Brouillette

Paula Paul de Nerval

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Isabel Richer

Fictionalized Paula Paul

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David Boutin

Roy Tranquille

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Frédéric Desager

The Great Zenon - The Cyclops

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Gaston Lepage

Édouard Doré

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France Castel

Nuna Breaux

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Louise Marleau

Angèlie Temporel

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Francine Ruel

Bébé Crocodile

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Michèle-Barbara Pelletier

Julie Larousse

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Lyne Rodier

Biz Prince

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Marie Eykel

Marie L'Heureux (Passe-par-là)

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Cédric Noël

M. Beaufort

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Suzanne Cloutier

Virginie Beaufort

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François L'Écuyer

Étienne

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Michel Côté

(uncredited)

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Status

Released

Language

French

Budget

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