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Wanda
Directed by
Barbara Loden
PG
1970
1h 43m
Drama
,
Crime
7.1
92%
70%
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Wanda, a lonely housewife, drifts through mining country until she meets a petty thief who takes her in.
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Cast of Wanda
Barbara Loden
Wanda Goronski / Director / Writer
Michael Higgins
Mr. Dennis
Dorothy Shupenes
Wanda's Sister
Peter Shupenes
Brother In Law
Jerome Thier
Husband
Marian Thier
Miss Godek
Valerie Mamches
Girl in Roadhouse
Anthony Rotell
Tony
M.L. Kennedy
Judge
Gerald Grippo
Court Clerk
Milton Gittleman
Factory Owner
Lila Gittleman
Factory Owners Wife
Arnold Kanig
Travelling Salesman
Joe Dennis
Joe
Charles Dosinan
Father
Jack Ford
Mr. Anderson
Rozamond Peck
Mrs. Anderson
Susan Clark
Anderson Daughter
Linda Clark
Anderson Daughter
Bill Longworth
Newscaster
Frank Jourdano
Soldier
Pete Richman
Musician
Ed Somavitch
Musician
Harry Shuster
Producer
Wanda Ratings & Reviews
NPR
John Powers
Wanda refuses to embody any of the female images she comes across in the film...You see, just because she can't articulate her desires, doesn't mean she doesn't yearn for something more.
n+1
A.S. Hamrah
The film hurts. Its plodding grimness reduces life to getting money and eating.
The Playlist
Christian Gallichio
Eschewing plot in favor of character study, Loden creates a fully-rounded portrait of a character unable to find her true meaning.
WBUR’s Arts & Culture
Sean Burns
To watch 'Wanda' today is to be knocked over anew by the film's unsettled emotional terrain, which slips and shifts beneath your feet from scene to scene.
Woman in Revolt
Lindsay Pugh
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.
The Public (Buffalo)
M. Faust
It's not without it's rough edges, but it's well worth seeing, and wondering what might have been had Barbara Loden made more films.
Los Angeles Times
Justin Chang
"Realism" doesn't entirely do justice to the world Wanda inhabits, which, for all the grit and grunge of its bars and diners and factory floors, is also a world of startling everyday beauty.
MUBI
Elissa Suh
How many others, I wondered, had sorely missed the point and tossed away Barbara Loden's exquisite film?
It's Just Movies
Ron Wilkinson
A powerhouse of stark realism, powerful tension and marvelously manipulated impending doom.
Slant Magazine
Chuck Bowen
Writer-director-actor Barbara Loden's 1970 feature has a wonderful, hard-won sense of everyday rapture.
Culture Trip
Graham Fuller
Just by living an unheroic life as millions of others live it, and by conveying its condition, a maker of art can show what's wrong with a society or culture. This is what Loden does brilliantly...
TIME Magazine
Jay Cocks
[Loden] captures the ambiance of small-time roadhouses with compelling accuracy; she manages through some clever location photography to convey an almost overwhelming sense of lingering desperation.
TV Guide
It's a powerful character study of an uneducated Pennsylvania coal-country woman who allows her husband a divorce and custody of her two children because, she admits, "I'm just no good."
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
If there is a female counterpart to John Cassavetes, Barbara Loden is it.
Reeling Reviews
Robin Clifford
...a solid characters study and fine debut, and swan song (Loden died in 1980 after battling cancer), for an unrequited filmmaker.
Reeling Reviews
Laura Clifford
...a landmark of American independent filmmaking.
Variety
Variety Staff
[The film] grows in observation, insight and impact as it goes along.
Chicago Reader
Don Druker
A brilliantly atmospheric film with a superb performance by Loden.
Village Voice
Melissa Anderson
Wanda is the singular vision of an artist who hailed from surroundings as bleak and limited as her title character's.
New York Times
Roger Greenspun
Wanda is a small movie, fully aware of its limits, and within those limits lovely.
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