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Director Barbara Loden
With Barbara Loden, Michael Higgins, Dorothy Shupenes, Jerome Thier
USA 1970. 103min. 35mm
Certificate: 15
A BFI National Archive print
Event total runtime 135min
Loden based her film on a 1960 news story about a female accomplice to a bank robbery who expressed gratitude to her judge for her jail sentence. What kind of woman could be ‘that passive and numb,’ Loden asked? A poetic, unsentimental film of unvarnished beauty, Wanda traces the itinerancy of its unforgetable anti-hero, played by Loden herself, who abandons her life as coalminer’s wife and wanders across the desolate landscapes and byways of an unseen America.
Contains sexual violence, domestic abuse.
New 35mm print made with funding from the National Lottery.
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Reader in Film Studies