The Countess of Baton Rouge
La comtesse de Bâton 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.
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Cast
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)
Suzanne Cloutier
as Virginie Beaufort
