The Countess of Baton Rouge
La comtesse de Bâton Rouge
Rating: 4.9 · 1997 · Romance, Comedy · Canada · 1 ч 34 мин
Description
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.
Information
- Original title
- La comtesse de Bâton Rouge
- Year
- 1997
- Genre
- Romance, Comedy
- Country
- Canada
- Runtime
- 1 ч 34 мин
- TMDB
- 4.9
- IMDb
- 4.9
Director
Cast
- Robin Aubert — Rex Prince
- Geneviève Brouillette — Paula Paul de Nerval
- Isabel Richer — Fictionalized Paula Paul
- David Boutin — Roy Tranquille
- Frédéric Desager — The Great Zenon - The Cyclops
- Gaston Lepage — Édouard Doré
- France Castel — Nuna Breaux
- Louise Marleau — Angèlie Temporel
- Francine Ruel — Bébé Crocodile
- Michèle-Barbara Pelletier — Julie Larousse
- Marie Eykel — Marie L'Heureux (Passe-par-là)
- Serge Bonin
- Suzanne Cloutier — Virginie Beaufort
- Shane Gilbeau — L'homme Sandwich
- Mark Krasnoff — Canon Man
- LaTitia-DeLaine — Beautiful Albino Woman