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A soundtrack plays folk rock as a woman prepares, at noon, to take her Borzois for a walk. She goes through her dresses... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
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(Cast) | Yvonne Marquis | ... | Hollywood Star (uncredited) |
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I think Kenneth Anger's work was very personal and in some ways inaccessible. They're actually more like works of art and music, anyway and so do not require conventional movie analysis. Almost everything I've seen of his work is incredibly moving. "Puce Moment" is an unbearably sad, bittersweet elegy to a time long past. It's hypnotic and dreamlike and irresistible. This short work of art makes me desire to return to a semi-defined period in time that is displayed as simultaneously exhilarating and sad, deliberately remote. Like returning to the womb. It's unmistakably southern California, which Anger grew up in and he is displaying his mixed feelings here. The color is rich and slightly gaudy and supremely sensual and indulgent. The music, which may have been added later, is perfect. It's melancholy and kind of slows the action down and it makes the girl seem slightly intoxicated or delirious and out-of-touch. It complements the visual sense beautifully. Obviously, "Puce Moment" would not appeal to many, but if you like to be taken in emotionally by things that are not meant to be understood or consciously dealt with, try and find this as part of Anger "Magick Lantern Cycle". Also incredible on pretty much the same theme is "Rabbit's Moon". It is the ultimate romantic longing...