Wanda (1970)
In grim, rust-belt Pennsylvania, Wanda is down and out. She works sporadically, has abandoned her husband and children, sleeps on her sister's couch, drinks and smokes too much, and goes home with men just to have a roof over her head. One night she walks into a bar after closing and finds a nervous Mr. Dennis pacing... (imdb)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Directed By: Barbara Loden
Written By: Barbara Loden
Starring: Michael Higgins, Barbara Loden, Dorothy Shupenes, Peter Shupenes, Jerome Thier, Marian Thier
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3. Female Directors (public: moderated by djross - 83 stars)
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A bleak story of a simpleton woman bouncing from place to place and person to person with no plan or goal. This movie is an exercise in patience waiting for something, anything to happen. When it does it leaves you feeling unsatisfied. What was the point?
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Of all the movies that Cassavetes didn't direct, this is one of the most Cassavetyish. Reactions are never forced and everything that's happening feels natural. I read somewhere that this is regarded as a minor masterpiece in France. Don't know about masterpiece tbh, but I sure like this kind of cinema.
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Wanda estreava há 50 anos no Festival de Veneza. Nem sei o que dizer, isso é um retrato tão pujante da merda que é ser mulher dentro do patriarcado e me deixou ainda mais desesperançada do que o usual. Blurayrip no MakingOff.
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America at its most nihilistic, and I'm here for it. The budget and its very hands-on approach (16mm on $100K and a 4-member crew) makes this all the more impressive
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An interesting vision of the past we don't often see.
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Like watching a slow trainwreck, Wanda keeps making bad mistake after bad mistake until bad things just happen to her by default. It's unflinching toward her without any of the typical redemption or glorification. If anything, she was probably most at peace with the robber. Fav scene: reading the newspaper and discovering she barkeep wasn't who he appeared to be.
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Sad sad sad movie
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Phantom Nook | 66 20% |
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Like a feminist Cassavetes with an Antonioni-esque emphasis on environment, Loden paints a portrait of a woman, perpetually lost and forever unwanting and unwanted. She reformulates her identity only in relation to whatever man she’s with or opposed to. She has no control over any aspect of her life - watch as she asks for money in the most indirect way possible. The scene with the toy airplanes in the sky is unforgettably beautiful and a great microcosm of the film as a whole. Masterpiece.
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Bonnie and Clyde by way of Cassavetes.
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Wanda illustrates the fine line often separating gritty realism from naive naturalism. Presumably its acclaim is due to its focus on a poor working class female protagonist living in a rust belt who feels emotionally trapped, leading her directly into the hands of bad men. Comparisons have been made to the 'naturalistic' style of Cassavetes, but that's nonsense: his style had an actual rhythm, this is just point and shoot. Loden is ok in the title role, but the film is amateurish and dull.
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I respect Barbara Loden as a trailblazer, but this film just doesn't have anything to make it stand out beyond historical value. Loden's habit of using the camera to linger on listless scenes like characters walking down the street or lying in bed just doesn't feel "earned." She doesn't counterbalance it with anything that drums up interest in the characters or give any weight to the drama. The result just ends up feeling so boring that I found myself counting the minutes until it ended.
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The deliberate pacing isn't always effective in the second half, but everything else is magnificent. It's a character study about a depressed and woman's aimless quest for attachment after her divorce. The film is non-judgmental and while Wanda's no saint she's quite sympathetic in her sad lonely struggle with life. The visual style is very rough but very appropriate, making it feel almost like a documentary, especially for the first half.
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Barbara Loden's only directorial film is rough around the edges, but it bursts with the charm of the early 70's movement. Loden clearly had a lot of talent - she was a triple threat and it's a shame that her career was cut short.
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| Aug 30, 2012 |  |
frederic_g54 | 7 56% |
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Unfettered by the commercial concerns of a Hollywood studio, Loden enjoys much stylistic freedom, rendering her film with a striking realism. Then there's Wanda: unforgivably self-deprecating, shamelessly relying on others' charity, not particularly attractive; Despite not finding a single alluring feature about her, I couldn't help but encourage her in turning her life around. Loden's impartiality towards Wanda's demeanor only amplifies this feeling. Her first/only film, but one to be proud of.
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Bonnie is nuffin compared to Wanda.
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MartinTeller | 81 69% |
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Wanda's self-worth has been battered down to nothingness. The only thing that seems to drive her is a need to be wanted, no matter how poorly she gets treated. Certainly she is a tragic character and the men in her life are no saints. But much of her trouble seems to be self-inflicted by careless decisions. Loden doesn't make it easy for us to decide how to judge her, and in a way takes the judgment out of the equation. The more I ponder this bleak film, the more intriguing I find it.
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| Jan 21, 2012 |  |
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jeff_v | 65 40% |
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There's much to like about Barbara Loden's lone film --it's a true indie and a scrupulously naturalistic realization that withholds judgment on its characters. True, it has some of the pitfalls of this type of low-budget film --the 16mm blow-up makes it look like crap, and the acting is often so poor it takes you out of the realism the film tries so hard to convey. Most detrimental to my appreciation of the movie is just that I couldn't find much reason to care about Wanda.
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| Average Percentile 61.7% from 226 Ratings |  |
