Wanda (1970)
Average Rating: 7.4/10
Reviews Counted: 10
Fresh: 9 | Rotten: 1
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Critic Reviews: 4
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Actress/filmmaker Barbara Loden both directs and stars in the stark little character study Wanda. She plays a girl from a remote mining town, timidly searching for security and love in the big city. After several desultory and abusive relationships, Wanda is "saved" by Dennis (Michael Higgins), who turns out to be a petty crook. Stylistically, Wanda is spare, lean, and understated -- on every level. Loden originally shot the film on 16 mm, then blew it up to 35 for arthouse showings. ~ Hal
Feb 28, 1971 Wide
Aug 15, 2006
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Barbara Loden
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Michael Higgins
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Charles Dosinan
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Frank Jourdano
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Valerie Manches
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All Critics (13) | Top Critics (6) | Fresh (9) | Rotten (2) | DVD (2)
If there is a female counterpart to John Cassavetes, Barbara Loden is it.
A brilliantly atmospheric film with a superb performance by Loden.
Wanda is the singular vision of an artist who hailed from surroundings as bleak and limited as her title character's.
The film is all the more impressive for its refusal to get embroiled in half-baked political attitudinising.
Top Critic...a solid characters study and fine debut, and swan song (Loden died in 1980 after battling cancer), for an unrequited filmmaker.
...a landmark of American independent filmmaking.
A sometimes incoherent primal scream, directed not at any particular target but at the state of the American dream in the late 1960s, especially as it applied to women.
Painfully boring.
This intelligent and original film is a prime example of the great films truly indie directors can make.
Wanda is rather out of step with the other, more famous, lovers-on-the-run films of its period.
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