peteg's blog - noise - movies - 2022 07 29 Wanda

Wanda (1970)

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A Barbara Loden jag from her efforts in a couple of her husband Elia Kazan's films. She wrote, directed, starred in this attempt to capture a vacuous divorcee who finds her calling as an accomplice to a thief with big ideas. It has its moments but is a bit too slow; it may've worked as more than a time capsule (of Pennsylvania and Holy Land and other places) at half the length.

Roger Greenspun at the time.