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.
Videos & Photos
All 0 Videos & 2 Photos
cast
Full Cast & Crew
... Rex Prince
... Paula Paul de Nerval
... Fictionalized Paula Paul
... Roy Tranquille
... The Great Zenon - The Cyclops
... Édouard Doré
Directors:
Release Date:
Sep 17, 1997 (Canada)
Run Time:
1hr 34`
MMPA Rating:
Original Language:
French
Production Countries:
Canada
Status:
Released
Cast & Crew of
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
SB
Serge Bonin...
... Beautiful Albino Woman
... Étienne
... L'homme Sandwich
... (uncredited)
Videos & Photos of
The Countess of Baton Rouge - The Countess of Baton Rouge
Photos ( 2 )
Related Movies To
The Countess of Baton Rouge - The Countess of Baton Rouge
Skin. Like. Sun. (2009)
4 /10
Real-life young couple Wim and Floor spend an afternoon in the sunwashed rooms of a crumbling home in Belgium. In a unique twist, this artistic erotic documentary is edited in nearly real-time. In the slowness, we get the build, the sweetness, and the sexiness. Forget about fingersnapping fast editing. Slow is where it’s at.
Run Time: 1hr . MMPA: NR . Release: 10 Oct 2009
Director: Jennifer Lyon Bell , Murielle Scherre
Producer: Jennifer Lyon Bell , Murielle Scherre
Stars: Wim van Damme , Floor Wyns
Private Collections (1979)
5.3 /10
Three stories. A solitary sailor falls from his boat and washes ashore on a tropical island. While seeking rescue, he's found by a nearly naked woman who is playful and compliant. He decides to erase his signs of distress and remain on the island. What awaits? In the second, an adolescent searches for the words of a nursery rime he remembers bits of. His journey takes him into dreams, sexual awakening, and Oedipal fantasy. Third, a man of wealth in late-nineteenth century Paris hires a prostitute for the night. She's also cabaret performer and takes him to her room. He fears he's about to be robbed. What's her secret?
Run Time: 1hr 43` . MMPA: . Release: 27 Jun 1979
Director: Shūji Terayama , Just Jaeckin , Walerian Borowczyk
Producer: Pierre Braunberger
Stars: Roland Blanche , Marie-Catherine Conti , Marpessa Dawn , Laura Gemser , Jūzō Itami , Hiromi Kawai
Freedom (2024)
0 /10
Inspired by the true events of one of France's most notorious non-violent robbers, Bruno Sulak, in the 1980s. He led multiple heists, then captured public attention for his many daring escapes from police custody...always to reunite with his beloved lover and accomplice Annie, becoming both France's Public Enemy #1 and an icon of Freedom.
Run Time: 1hr 50` . MMPA: . Release: 01 Nov 2024
Director: Jean-Baptiste Pouilloux , Mélanie Laurent , Edouard Azoulay
Producer: Alhana Demoulin , Alain Goldman , Cécile Levraud
Stars: Lucas Bravo , Mélanie Laurent , Yvan Attal , Steve Tientcheu , David Ayala , Christophe Kourotchkine
Super Papa (2024)
0 /10
For the 8th birthday of his son Gaby, Tom, unwittingly offers him a book ... which contains only blank pages. Faced with Gaby's disappointment and in order not to lose face, Tom pretends that it is a magic book: all you have to do is write your dreams in it for them to come true. This is how, totally overwhelmed, Tom will do everything he can to make his son's dreams come true, even the wildest ones!
Run Time: 1hr 38` . MMPA: . Release: 07 Aug 2024
Director: Manon Dubois-Muret , Léa Lando , Léonard Vindry
Producer: Margaux Bail , Thierry Desmichelle , Jean-Baptiste Guittard
Stars: Ahmed Sylla , Ismaël Bangoura , Julien Pestel , Louise Coldefy , Zabou Breitman , Claudia Tagbo
Dangerous Liaisons (2022)
4.1 /10
The innocent Célène might be falling in love with popular surfer Tristan at her new school. But she has no idea that, in actuality, she’s the object of a cruel bet between Tristan and Instagram influencer Vanessa.
Run Time: 1hr 49` . MMPA: R . Release: 08 Jul 2022
Director: Rachel Suissa
Producer: Nicolas Derouet , Eleonore Dailly , Edouard de Lachomette
Stars: Paola Locatelli , Simon Rérolle , Ella Pellegrini , Héloïse Janjaud , Jin Xuan Mao , Oscar Lesage
The Gardener (2025)
0 /10
Every year the Prime Minister has a list of all kinds of troublemakers eliminated in the name of the famous Reason of State. Serge Shuster, Special Adviser to the President of the Republic, finds himself on this list, better known as the Matignon List. Condemned to certain death and at the heart of an implacable plot and a state secret that also put his family in danger, Serge, his wife and children have only one hope left - their gardener, Léo, who hates it when « slugs » invade his garden... Especially those that want to kill innocent families.
Run Time: 1hr 50` . MMPA: . Release: 30 Jan 2025
Director: Laurent Demianoff , David Charhon , Roger Torremorell
Producer: Olivier Albou , Sebastien Fechner , Jean-Luc Olivier
Stars: Jean-Claude Van Damme , Michaël Youn , Nawell Madani , Kaaris , Jérôme Le Banner , Ragnar Le Breton
Jack Mimoun & the Secrets of Val Verde (2022)
5.4 /10
Two years after surviving alone on the hostile island of Val Verde, Jack Mimoun has become an adventure star. The book recounting his experience is a bestseller and his television show breaks audience records. He is then approached by the mysterious Aurélie Diaz who will bring Jack Mimoun back to Val Verde to train him in search of the legendary sword of the pirate La Buse. Accompanied by Bruno Quézac, the ambitious but reckless manager of Jack, and Jean-Marc Bastos, a mercenary as disturbed as he is unpredictable, our adventurers will embark on an incredible treasure hunt through the jungle of the island of thousand dangers.
Run Time: 1hr 44` . MMPA: . Release: 12 Oct 2022
Director: Malik Bentalha , Ludovic Colbeau-Justin
Producer: Eric Altmayer , Nicolas Altmayer
Stars: Malik Bentalha , Joséphine Japy , Jérôme Commandeur , François Damiens , Benoît Magimel , Amir Llyas
MILF (2018)
4.8 /10
Three childhood friends - Elise, Sonia and Cecile - leave for a summer in the South of France to help clear Cecile’s holiday house before it is put up for sale. There, they soon become the prime targets of three horny young men, for whom these single forty-year-old women are much more attractive than girls their age.
Run Time: 1hr 36` . MMPA: . Release: 02 May 2018
Director: Natalie Engelstein , Axelle Laffont , Teddy Laroutis
Producer: Nadia Khamlichi , Julien Madon , Iann Le Corre
Stars: Virginie Ledoyen , Marie-Josée Croze , Axelle Laffont , Matthias Dandois , Victor Meutelet , Waël Sersoub
Taxi (1998)
7 /10
In Marseilles a skilled pizza delivery boy Daniel who drives a scooter finally has his dreams come true. He gets a taxi license. Caught by the police for a huge speed infraction, he will help Emilien, a loser inspector who can't drive, on the track of German bank robbers, so he doesn't lose his license and his dream job.
Run Time: 1hr 26` . MMPA: . Release: 08 Apr 1998
Director: Sophie Lifshitz , Gérard Pirès , Michèle Andreucci
Producer: Gaetan Rousseau , Djamel Ouahab , Luc Besson
Stars: Samy Naceri , Frédéric Diefenthal , Marion Cotillard , Manuela Gourary , Emma Wiklund , Bernard Farcy
Hello Madness (2025)
0 /10
Jeanne visits her best friend Elisa in the countryside and discovers an abandoned castle turned into a community space. Full of social and collective initiatives, the place is threatened by business plans. How long will it resist?
Run Time: 1hr 47` . MMPA: . Release: 26 Feb 2025
Director: Marion Bernard , Judith Davis , Camille Servignat
Producer: Ferdinand Verhaeghe , Patrick Sobelman , Sandra Mirande
Stars: Judith Davis , Claire Dumas , Maxence Tual , Simon Bakhouche , Nadir Legrand , Mélanie Bestel
Banger (2025)
0 /10
When cops recruit a has-been DJ to bust a quirky criminal gang with ties to his rival, he spots a chance to mix his way back to the top with a banger.
Run Time: 1hr 30` . MMPA: R . Release: 01 Apr 2025
Director: Fabrice Camoin , So-Me , Hugo Thilly
Producer: Laurent Nogueira , Marie Guillon
Stars: Vincent Cassel , Yvick Letexier , Vincent Belorgey , Laura Felpin , Alexis Manenti , Déborah Lukumuena
Freestyle (2022)
0 /10
One morning, Louise, 45, is suddenly unable to step out of her car. Sweats, anxieties, palpitations... she is having an inexplicable panic attack. She is tetanized and simply cannot set foot outside.
Run Time: 1hr 29` . MMPA: . Release: 29 Jun 2022
Director: Grégory Troy , Marina Bouscarrut , Didier Barcelo
Producer: Jean Ozannat , Julie Navarro , Michaël Gentile
Stars: Marina Foïs , Benjamin Voisin , Jean-Charles Clichet , Albert Delpy , Ariane Mourier , Jean-Pierre Martins