‍Wanda is an experiment in passivity. At the height of a civil rights moment in the US Loden decided to ask what if a woman is passive? What results from a woman giving in to her exhaustion with the world around her and what does it look like for a woman to refuse? The vision of her sensitive and intelligent character being not interested in the constant requirement to fight for equal treatment and rights is profound and it was a daring artistic risk to put that vision to film - to see what story comes out of it.

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Don't miss an opportunity for a first watch with us or the opportunity to join an audience in witnessing jaw dropping vulnerability and rawness from the barren American 1970 landscape captured cinematically by Barbara Loden in the form of a dramatic, funny and devastating road movie.

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SYNOPSIS

After a string of abusive relationships, Wanda abandons her family and seeks solace in the company of a petty criminal. - Letterboxd

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dir. Barbara Loden, 1970
‍United States, digital projection
‍103 min

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SUNDAY, 8/2
7:30 DOORS
8:00 SCREENING

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$10 general admission.

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