The Countess of Baton Rouge

The Countess of Baton Rouge (1997)

La comtesse de Bâton Rouge

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.

Date of release
1997-09-17
TMDB
4.9 / 10 (7)
Runtime
1h 34m
Genres
Romance, Comedy
Director
André Forcier

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Interesting facts

The Countess of Baton Rouge is a romantic comedy film by Canadian director André Forcier, released in 1997.

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