This film 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.
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Part of The Magick Lantern Cycle
9 films
Cast
1 person
Kenneth Anger Director · Curtis Harrington Cinematographer
United States release January 1, 1949 · Produced in United States · Languages English, No dialogue
Production
United States
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English · No dialogue
Release dates
United States · January 1, 1949
Theatrical
France
April 7, 1973 · Theatrical
Portugal
May 7, 2009 · Limited theatrical · Cinemateca Portuguesa
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