Wanda (1970)

Directed by

Barbara Loden

Genre

drama film, heist film, crime film, fiction film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 42m

Rated

PG

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 158 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman with few choices and little drive drifts through mining towns in Pennsylvania. She ends up on the run with a bank robber who treats her poorly.

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What happens

Wanda is a 1970 American independent drama film written and directed by Barbara Loden, who also stars in the title role. Set in the anthracite coal region of eastern Pennsylvania, the film focuses on an apathetic woman with limited options who inadvertently goes on the run with a bank robber. Inspired by her own past feelings of aimlessness, as well as a newspaper article detailing a woman's participation in a bank robbery, Loden wrote the screenplay for Wanda before securing financing through Harry Shuster, a Los Angeles–based producer. The film was shot on location with a small crew of around seven people, primarily in eastern Pennsylvania and Connecticut, and much of the dialog and filming was improvised, with Loden only loosely referring to the screenplay. Wanda was chosen for the 31st Venice International Film Festival, where it won the Pasinetti Award for Best Foreign Film. A restored version of the film was screened out of competition at the 67th Venice International Film Festival in 2010. In 2017, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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