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Wanda, Harry Shuster presents ; a film by Barbara Loden with Nicholas T. Proferes ; written and directed by Barbara Loden ; produced by Foundation for Filmakers

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MPAA rating: PG

Wanda

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1084287779

Harry Shuster presents ; a film by Barbara Loden with Nicholas T. Proferes ; written and directed by Barbara Loden ; produced by Foundation for Filmakers

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The Criterion collection, 965

"With her first and only feature film--a hard-luck drama she wrote, directed, and starred in--Barbara Loden turned in a groundbreaking work of American independent cinema, bringing to life a kind of character seldom seen on-screen. Set amid a soot-choked Pennsylvania landscape, and shot in an intensely intimate vérité style, the film takes up with distant and soft-spoken Wanda (Loder), who has left her husband, lost custody of her children, and now finds herself alone, drifting between dingy bars and motels, where she falls prey to a series of callous men--including a bank robber who ropes her into his next criminal scheme. An until now difficult-to-see masterpiece that has nonetheless exerted an outsize influence on generations of artists and filmmakers, Wanda is a compassionate and wrenching portrait of a woman stranded on society's margins"--Container

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