Puce Moment
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Puce Moment
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Long before Kenneth Anger's book Hollywood Babylon appeared in France in 1963, Anger had worked on a film script about the glamour, decadence, and decline of Hollywood entitled "Puce Women." Only the first part of it, six-and-a-half-minutes' worth, were actually filmed. The film opens with the camera soaring through an extraordinary array of costumes, finally coming to rest in the lair of a Hollywood starlet who knows how to wear them (played by one of Anger's cousins, Yvonne Marquis). The camera focuses lovingly on the apparel, how it is worn, put on, and taken off; an early manifestation of an Anger trademark would find further development in films such as Scorpio Rising. For many years Puce Moment was shown with the Overture to Verdi's opera I Villi, but in 1966 Anger added a newly made soundtrack consisting of an intriguing folk-rock score by the otherwise unknown Jonathan Halper. ~ David Lewis, RoviCast
- Yvonne Marquis - The Star
Credit
Kenneth Anger - Director, Kenneth Anger - Editor, Jonathan Halper - Composer (Music Score), Kenneth Anger - Cinematographer, Kenneth Anger - Screenwriter| Puccini: His Operas, His Women (1997 Film), Puccini for Beginners (2005 Film) | |
| Pucker Up: The Fine Art of Whistling (2005 Film), Pucker up and Bark Like a Dog (1989 Film) |
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Puce Moment
| Puce Moment | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Kenneth Anger |
| Starring | Yvonne Marquis |
| Music by | Jonathan Halper |
| Release date(s) | 1949 |
| Running time | 6 mins |
| Country | USA |
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 1920's 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 longue 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.
The gowns used were owned by Anger's grandmother who had been a costume designer in the silent film era. Anger attempts to recreate silent era style by using alternating camera speeds. The film was made in the house of Sampson De Brier, a silent film actor, who later appeared in Anger's Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome.
Curtis Harrington was a cinematographer on the film.
Yvonne Marquis moved to Mexico shortly after the film was made. Anger reveals Marquis was a mistress to Lázaro Cárdenas, the Former President of Mexico.
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