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The Countess of Baton Rouge

50.00% | September 17, 1997 | Romance, Comedy

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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André Forcier
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Cast

Robin Aubert
Robin Aubert
Rex Prince
Geneviève Brouillette
Geneviève Brouillette
Paula Paul de Nerval
Isabel Richer
Isabel Richer
Fictionalized Paula Paul
David Boutin
David Boutin
Roy Tranquille
Frédéric Desager
Frédéric Desager
The Great Zenon - The Cyclops

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