Saturday 14 March 2026 17:30
languages : vostFR locations : Théâtre des Capucins
synopsis
Wanda Goronski can no longer bear the miserable environment she lives in. Fired from the factory where she worked, she decides to leave her miner husband and their two children without looking back. She begins to drift through the city, eventually clinging to Norman Dennis, a shabby traveling salesman who makes ends meet by stealing.
To say that Wanda deglamorizes the American crime film is both entirely accurate and something of an understatement. Loden’s first and only film as a director is a searingly honest character study whose jagged, unvarnished aesthetic — inspired in part by Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless and the films of Andy Warhol — stood in stark contrast to the slick Hollywood dramatic tradition epitomized by, among others, Loden’s husband, the director Elia Kazan.
Los Angeles Times
To watch Wanda today is to be knocked over anew by the film’s unsettled emotional terrain, which slips and shifts beneath your feet from scene to scene.
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