Puce Moment
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.
Puce Moment (1949)
Kenneth Anger
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United States of America
Ratings
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5.7/10
69 votes
Rating consensus
57/100 blend
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Moderate-to-positive blended read — weighted ~57/100 across 1 rating source. The listed meters mostly agree.
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Puce Moment (1949)
Kenneth Anger
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