Wanda

Wanda (1970)

  • 86% of critics liked it
    (7 reviews)

  • 76% of users liked it
    (496 ratings)

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… More

PG, 1 hr. 45 min.
Directed By
Barbara Loden
Written By
Barbara Loden
Genres
Art House & International, Drama
In Theaters
Feb 28, 1971 Wide
On DVD
Aug 15, 2006

Critic Reviews

  • Don Druker, Chicago Reader

    A brilliantly atmospheric film with a superb performance by Loden.

  • Melissa Anderson, Village Voice

    Wanda is the singular vision of an artist who hailed from surroundings as bleak and limited as her title character's.

  • Michael W. Phillips, Jr., Goatdog's Movies

    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.

  • Phil Hall, Film Threat

    Painfully boring.

  • , Time Out

    The film is all the more impressive for its refusal to get embroiled in half-baked political attitudinising.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Lucas M


    Wanda is a interesting experimental / independent film, that presents a sad and boring "Bonnie and Clyde" lifestyle with lost characters and empty life. The title character Wanda is so alone, that, stay with the person that most hate her, this is the level of dumb and… More

  • Stella D


    a very bleak and yet very intriguing debut for writer/director/ lead actress barbara loden, who was at the time elia kazan's wife. the film couldn't be more different in style from kazan's work; it's as minimalist as can be, shot in cinema verite style with… More

  • Tim S


    This movie proves that just because it's independent doesn't mean it's good didn't just apply to the 90's. This movie is just God Awful. Barbara Loden should have let her husband (Kazan for Christ's sake) take a crack at this. I put this on the que… More

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