Puce Moment

Puce Moment

5.6 | 1949-01-01 | Fantasy Music

Puce Moment is a short 6 minute film by Kenneth Anger, author of the Hollywood Babylon books, filmed in 1949. Puce Moment 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.

Featured Crew

Kenneth Anger Writer
Kenneth Anger Director
Curtis Harrington Director of Photography
Kenneth Anger Producer
Kenneth Anger Editor

Cast

Yvonne Marquis
Yvonne Marquis
Hollywood Star (uncredited)

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