(La comtesse de Bâton Rouge)

Content: 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.

Countries:

Canada

Genres:

Romance,

Comedy

Runtime:

94 minutes

Year:

1997

Directors:

André Forcier

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Production companies:

Max Films

Actors:

Rex Prince

Paula Paul de Nerval

Fictionalized Paula Paul

Roy Tranquille

The Great Zenon - The Cyclops

Crews:

Director

Sound

Original Music Composer

Director of Photography

Writer