Wanda
Barbara Loden
- 1970
- USA
- Drama
- 1h42mn
- Original version with French subtitles
- Color
Wanda, a wife and mother with no willpower or desire, spends her days on her sofa neglecting herself. Left homeless and with no resources by her divorce, she crosses paths with a petty criminal, becoming his lover and accomplice.
The unique feature film by Barbara Loden, who also plays the title character, Wanda is a deeply personal project created from autobiographical elements and carried entirely by its creator. Shot in an almost documentary style, it stands as one of the most unsettling portraits of a woman in American cinema, its feminism based on its refusal to invent an exemplary heroine. Like the protagonist in Cassavetes’s Woman Under the Influence, Wanda is a lost and socially adrift woman, a female anti-hero whose truth ultimately goes beyond fiction. Gone too soon, Barbara Loden leaves behind a unique film that fuels the dream of a tragically interrupted major filmography.
Screenings
08/09 • 17h15 • Screen 300
Presented by Anna Mouglalis
Credits
- With : Barbara Loden, Michael Higgins, Dorothy Shupenes, Peter Shupenes, Jerome Thier...
- Screenplay : Barbara Loden
- Photography : Nicholas T. Proferes
- Editing : Nicholas T. Proferes
- Production : Harry Shuster
