Puce Moment

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Audience Member Amazing visuals! Feels significantly ahead of it’s time Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 12/15/21 Full Review jack c I don't know if there is too much to this short by Kenneth Anger, but I also don't know if Anger wants us to think there's anything deeper past the facade he presents: a bunch of dresses are shown one by one, floating like ghosts, and then the woman is trying the dresses on, puts on her pointed fashionable shoes, and then is taken along while lying back on a couch through light and dark until she's on a roof. I wish I knew what the word 'Puce' meant before watching the film (looking it up in French it means 'flea', so is it related to fleas somehow, or a flea circus, I don't know). It doesn't seem to have much to relate to this - maybe because dogs appear near the end who are leading along the woman - but that's fine, I suppose. I didn't watch this first among the Anger films in his collection, and I think Scorpio Rising, Rabbit's Moon and even the hallucinogenic Lucifer Rising offer more meat on the experimental bones than this. It's also hard to judge it as its own thing as Anger went back to re-dub the original version he shot and he put Jonathan Harper folk songs over it, which... was the wisest decision he made as it turns this into something that is out of time, as it's clothes from the silent film era (via his grandmother who was a designer), an actress and setting and film stock that's late 1940's (in color! and not bad stock at that), and music from the 60's. This ends up being a keen music video, and of course it shows how vital Anger was with putting images to music. But apart from that it's not something that yells "watch this over and over" (unless, of course, you love the songs beyond measure or the clothes or whatnot). Maybe if Anger had had the money to do what he wanted it'd be something more than these fragments stitched together. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Feels unfinished ... Because it is. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/14/23 Full Review Audience Member Charming, with emphasis on banality and materialistic void, in what seems to be a harmless and misunderstood short. 85/100 Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/22/23 Full Review Audience Member "Puce Moment" is yet another unrealized Kenneth Anger project. The story is slim but it's a watchable short, mostly because Anger's artistic nature is evident. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/11/23 Full Review Audience Member If you like experimental films or Anger's other films, you will be very interested in this one too. If you're like me and can't stand having to sit through experimental stuff, skip this one too, if you're even reading this. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/22/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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