Wanda
Barbara Loden / US, 1970 / 103 min.
This empathetic, heart-rending portrait of a woman stranded on society’s margins has developed into a highly influential work. This makes Barbara Loden the first female director of a feature film that saw cinematic release since Ida Lupino.
Barbara Loden’s first and only feature film, that focused on an – at the time atypical – character, was a groundbreaking work in American independent cinema. Wanda is set in Pennsylvania’s soot-choked landscape and was shot in an intensely intimate, vérité style, on course 16mm film stock.
Digital presentation courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Preservation conducted by the UCLA Film & Television Archive with funding provided by The Film Foundation and GUCCI
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Director
Barbara Loden
Production year
1970
Country
US
Original title
Wanda
Length
103 min.
Language
English
Subtitles
NONE
Format
DCP
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