My Wonderful Wanda

audience Reviews

, 60% Audience Score
  • Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
    A young, beautiful and very nice single mother of two boys from Poland comes to look after the disabled 70-year-old Josef from a wealthy family of Swiss industrialists. Wanda - the senior's favorite, caring, competent - and eager to provide the infirm master of the house with supplementary services for extra remuneration - is also the object of undisguised sighs of his son Gregi - not entirely successful successor of his father in managing a construction company. Her next stay in the Wegmeister-Gloor family is caused by an attempt to persuade employers to "contribute" to the maintenance and upbringing of her future child - also to keep this shocking fact secret from the world - resulting from Wanda's pregnancy as a result of her overly intimate contacts with Josef. The storm in the family brings two positive solutions: the senior regains power in his legs, plus it comes to a settlement - a child for the generous financial benefits of Josef's childless daughter, Sophie, with her husband Manfred as the formal, though fictional father of a newborn. The further fate of the Wanda family Wegmeister-Gloor relationship will be equally surprising, but will be told equally lightly, with both squinting eyes on the raging emotions on both sides of the conflict (Wanda's father and her mother will appear, a cow - a gift from Gregi and, to increase the chaos , two sons of the protagonist!). It is full of surprising twists and sparkling with surprises and wit, rich in threads, but above all very funny Swiss production - mainly due to an excellent script (Bettina Oberli, Cooky Ziesche) - also paying attention to the effects of breaking the border in the gastarbeiter-employer relationship with a polish native motif and a great creation of Agnieszka Grochowska, perfectly partnering Marthe Keller as the employer and wife of the senior, Elsa, and - on the other extreme of achievements - the charging Cezary Pazura.