Wanda (1970)
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This will be in celebration of the 55th anniversary of the film.
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“When “Wanda” premiered, Pauline Kael (and many other US critics) called it a mundane piece of garbage. But they were wrong … it’s a feminist masterpiece.” – Woman in Revolt
With her first and only feature film—a hard-luck drama she wrote, directed, and starred in—Barbara Loden turned in a groundbreaking work of American independent cinema, bringing to life a kind of character seldom seen on-screen. Set amid a soot-choked Pennsylvania landscape, and shot in an intensely intimate vérité style, the film takes up with distant and soft-spoken Wanda (Loden), who has left her husband, lost custody of her children, and now finds herself alone, drifting between dingy bars and motels, and callously mistreated by a series of men—including a bank robber who ropes her into his next criminal scheme. A rarely seen masterpiece that has nonetheless exerted an outsize influence on generations of artists and filmmakers, Wanda is a compassionate and wrenching portrait of a woman stranded on society’s margins.
Restored by UCLA Film & Television Archive. Restoration funding provided by The Film Foundation and GUCCI.
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- Genre Drama
- Director Barbara Loden
- Released 1970
- Runtime 1h 43m
- Rated GP
- Studio Janus Films
- CountryUnited States
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