Puce Moment (1949)

ALL 01/01/1949 (en) Fantasy, Music 6 Min
  • Release
    01/01/1949
  • Production
  • Rotten tomato
    55%
  • Original title
    Puce Moment
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

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.

  1. Kenneth Anger

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Kenneth Anger

    Editor

  4. Kenneth Anger

    Producer



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  1. Yvonne Marquis

    Hollywood Star (uncredited)

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 1 , Crews : 5

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Puce Moment (1949) 6 Min

ALL 01/01/1949 (en)
Fantasy, Music
  • Release 01/01/1949
  • Production
  • Original title Puce Moment
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

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.

  1. Kenneth Anger

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Kenneth Anger

    Editor

  4. Kenneth Anger

    Producer