Wanda

by Elena Gorfinkel

Actor-turned-writer/director Barbara Loden's only feature film, Wanda (1970), tells the story of an alienated working-class woman, Wanda Goronski (played by Loden), who abandons her life as a coal miner's wife and mother, electing instead to drift. Bracing in its realist texture and proto-feminist in its sensibility, it received critical acclaim upon release, winning the Critics' Prize at the Venice Film Festival in 1970. Today, Wanda...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 183902304X
• ISBN13: 9781839023040
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: British Film Institute
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.3" x 7.5"