WANDA: Book of the Film
A new translation of Nathalie Léger's prize-winning novel about Barbara Loden adds to the experience of watching the late actress's only film. Barbara Loden’s directorial debut and swansong, Wanda (1970) is now considered a masterpiece of cinéma vérité. Set in the coal region of Pennsylvania, the film’s realism is bleak, providing no cinematic redemption to raise its eponymous non-heroine from the dust and dirt of the minefields, or monotony of smallville with its highways, b
