Puss The Booted Cat

Puss The Booted Cat is an erotic short that laps up various incarnations of the classic fairytale PussInBoots The tale popularized in 17th c France by author Charles Perrault is here transformed into a contemporary adventure of unrequited love landstitlesandgoodstobeconquered identitiestobeclaimed and feminine feline power The heroine who is both the woman Mademoiselle Puss and Puss the cat battles loss and misfortune with irrepressible rebellious energies At last she is able to relax in her throne of the Bubastis Queendom enjoying music dance and a most unusual mushroomit had once been the ogre whose vengeance is the catalyst of this particular episode in one of her nine lives The films blackandwhite images intertitles nonsynchronous sound low tech tricks and theatricalized acting style borrow from early cinema even as its modern day references fast paced editing and feminist sensibility place it paws down in the present