The Countess of Baton Rouge

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

September 17, 1997

Original language

French

Spoken languages

French

Production

Max Films

Cast

Gaston Lepage,Louise Marleau,Shane Gilbeau,Isabel Richer,Geneviève Brouillette,Frédéric Desager,Michèle-Barbara Pelletier,Robin Aubert,France Castel,Francine Rueland 6 more

Director

André Forcier

Writer

André Forcier

Cinematography

André Turpin

Music

Michel Cusson

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0118879