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La comtesse de Bâton Rouge (1998)
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.
Updated May 27 2020
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Cast
Gaston Lepage
Édouard Doré
France Castel
Nuna Breaux
Frédéric Desager
The Great Zenon - The Cyclops
Robin Aubert
Rex Prince
Geneviève Brouillette
Paula Paul de Nerval
David Boutin
Roy Tranquille
Isabel Richer
Fictionalized Paula Paul
Crew
André Forcier
Director
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