The Countess of Baton 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 halfmad idealistic Rex was busily making his first film a Marxist tract depicting poverty in Montreal Edouard Dore a wellconnected 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 oneeyed fellow with the amazing ability to use his eye to project movie images on a screen with neither a projector nor film