The Countess of Baton Rouge

Synopsis

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.

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