A director and a film unfortunately stymied shortly after its premiere, Barbara Loden’s Wanda (1970) remains a singularly unwavering portrait of neo-realistic gender identity which is finally brought to a platform whereby it can reclaim renown. Premiering out of the 1970 Venice Film Festival, Loden picked up the International Critics Award. One wonders what might have been possible had the film not premiered during the festival’s transitional period from 1969-1979, when there was no official ‘competition’ but only various sidebars sans a jury. Heretofore remembered as the estranged wife of director Elia Kazan, who cast Loden in 1960’s Wild River and the wild child sister to Warren Beatty in Splendor in the Grass (1961), the Tony winning actress would become the first woman to write, direct and star in her own production in 1970.…...
- 3/26/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
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