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The Countess of Baton Rouge (1997)

ALL 09/17/1997 (fr) Romance, Comedy 94 Min
  • Release
    09/17/1997
  • Production
    Max Films
  • Rotten tomato
    50%
  • Original title
    La comtesse de Bâton Rouge
  • Original language
    fr
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

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.

  1. André Forcier

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer



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Casts

  1. Robin Aubert

    Rex Prince

  2. Geneviève Brouillette

    Paula Paul de Nerval

  3. Isabel Richer

    Fictionalized Paula Paul

  4. David Boutin

    Roy Tranquille

  5. Frédéric Desager

    The Great Zenon - The Cyclops

  6. Gaston Lepage

    Édouard Doré

  7. France Castel

    Nuna Breaux

  8. Louise Marleau

    Angèlie Temporel

  9. Francine Ruel

    Bébé Crocodile

  10. Michèle-Barbara Pelletier

    Julie Larousse

  11. Mark Krasnoff

    Dudley Fuselier

  12. Lyne Rodier

    Biz Prince

  13. Marie Eykel

    Marie L'Heureux (Passe-par-là)

  14. Cédric Noël

    M. Beaufort

  15. Suzanne Cloutier

    Virginie Beaufort

  16. Serge Bonin

  17. François L'Écuyer

    Étienne

  18. Shane Gilbeau

    L'homme Sandwich

  19. Michel Côté

    (uncredited)

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 19 , Crews : 1

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The Countess of Baton Rouge (1997) 94 Min

ALL 09/17/1997 (fr)
Romance, Comedy
  • Release 09/17/1997
  • Production
    Max Films
  • Original title La comtesse de Bâton Rouge
  • fr
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

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.

  1. André Forcier

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer



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