Directed by Barbara Loden | USA | 103 mins

Part of our Defiant Women Series.

Shot on location with a low budget and a small crew, actress Barbara Loden's sole feature film as a director has a cinema verité realism in its depiction of an unhappy housewife turned bank robber that serves as a marked contrast to the glamourization of films like Bonnie and Clyde made just a few years earlier. Highly critically acclaimed since its release and recently voted #48 on Sight and Sound's critics Top 100 list, Wanda is a challenging film with its depiction of a woman who wants more out of life than she is getting, but has been so beaten down by the world around her that she doesn't know how to get it for herself.

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