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1970 | Color | 103:00

Wanda, the mother of several small children, feels lonely and isolated in the Pennsylvania Rust Belt. Her husband works sporadically; just as he has abandoned her, so does she abandon him and their children, spending time in bars to pick up men. One night, she meets a petty thief who ropes her into his next criminal scheme.


Country: Estados Unidos
Direction: Loden; Bárbara
Script: Loden; Bárbara
Production: Loden; Bárbara, Shuster; Harry
Photography: Proferes; Nicholas
Sound: Vorisek; Dick, Greenstein; Harvey, Hedman; Lars
Music: Mullaney; Dave
Cast:Shupens; Dorothy, Shupens; Peter, Thier; Jerome, Thier; Marian, Higgins; Michael, Loden; Bárbara, Rotell; Anthony
Participation year at FICM: 2021

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Wanda

The story centers on Wanda, a rural housewife who embarks on a journey across an American landscape of decrepit factories, two-lane wastelands and ratty motels. Dragged into a relationship with small-time crook Michael Higgins, Wanda floats through life like a witness - a view of desperation filtered through a tinted windshield.

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