Wanda (1970)

Barbara Loden’s tough, unsentimental portrait of a woman adrift in the industrial heartlands of the north-eastern United States.

“How can a woman ever afford to be both wayward and astray? Wanda showed us how it’s done without telling us why (or why not). Loden’s crisp sensitivity and sudden spikes of ambivalence are immortalised in her debut, and only, feature film as a director.” Savina Petkova

“Flies in the face of the generic American road movie’s petro-capitalist and patriarchal fantasies.” Becca Voelcker

“Quite simply, there is nothing else like this film.” Anna Backman Rogers

1970 USA
Directed by
Barbara Loden
Produced by
Harry Shuster
Written by
Barbara Loden
Featuring
Barbara Loden, Michael Higgins, Dorothy Shupenes
Running time
100 minutes

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Allison Anders
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Nan Goldin
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Carmen Jaquier
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John Michael McDonagh
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