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Wanda

Dir. Barbara Loden
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    18:15
    Everyman Cinema Leeds, Leeds
    Screen 4
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    16:15
    Everyman Cinema Leeds, Leeds
    Screen 4
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A groundbreaking work of American independent cinema, Barbara Loden’s Wanda is a stark, unsentimental portrait of a woman adrift in Rust Belt America.

Inspired by a news story, Loden wrote, directed, and starred as Wanda, a coal miner’s wife who abandons her family and drifts through bars, motels, and desolate landscapes, eventually falling in with a hapless thief. With an intimate vérité style, Wanda is a quietly devastating vision of a woman searching for something beyond the roles assigned to her.

"'Realism' doesn't entirely do justice to the world Wanda inhabits, which, for all the grit and grunge of its bars and diners and factory floors, is also a world of startling everyday beauty." — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times

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Contains scenes of domestic abuse and sexual threat.

Director Barbara Loden
Running time 102 mins
Production year 1970
Country USA
Language English
Courtesy of Janus
Certificate BBFC 15

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