Released:
1997-09-17

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.

Director:
André Forcier

Runtime:
1h 34min

Genre:
Romance, Comedy

• Cast:
• 
  Robin Aubert
  as
  Rex Prince
• 
  Geneviève Brouillette
  as
  Paula Paul de Nerval
• 
  Isabel Richer
  as
  Fictionalized Paula Paul
• 
  David Boutin
  as
  Roy Tranquille
• 
  Frédéric Desager
  as
  The Great Zenon - The Cyclops