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Puce Moment

Puce Moment

19496m
Music

Status

Released

Release

1949

Runtime

6m

Storyline

This film resulted from the unfinished short film Puce Women. The film opens with a camera watching 1920s style flapper gowns being taken off a dress rack. The dresses are removed and danced off the rack to music. (The original soundtrack was Verdi opera music; in the 1960s, Anger re-released the film with a new psychedelic folk-rock soundtrack performed by Jonathan Halper.) A long-lashed woman, Yvonne Marquis, dresses in the purple puce gown and walks to her vanity to apply perfume. She lies on a chaise lounge which then begins to move around the room and eventually out to a patio. Borzois appear and she prepares to take them for a walk.

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Status
Released
Runtime
6m
Jan 1, 1949
Languages
No Language
Director
Kenneth Anger
Kenneth Anger
Production Countries
United States of America
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