The Countess of Baton Rouge 1997
6.3 / 10
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.
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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Full Cast & Crew
... Rex Prince
... Paula Paul de Nerval
... Fictionalized Paula Paul
... Roy Tranquille
... The Great Zenon - The Cyclops
... Édouard Doré
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Release Date:
Sep 17, 1997 (Canada)
Run Time:
1hr 34`
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Original Language:
French
Production Countries:
Canada
Status:
Released
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The Countess of Baton Rouge - The Countess of Baton Rouge
Directors & Credit Writers
... Director
Cast
... Rex Prince
... Paula Paul de Nerval
... Fictionalized Paula Paul
... Roy Tranquille
... The Great Zenon - The Cyclops
... Édouard Doré
... Nuna Breaux
... Angèlie Temporel
... Bébé Crocodile
... Julie Larousse
... Dudley Fuselier
... Biz Prince
... Marie L'Heureux (Passe-par-là)
... M. Beaufort
... Virginie Beaufort
... Beautiful Albino Woman
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Serge Bonin...
... Étienne
... L'homme Sandwich
... (uncredited)
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