“I believe there is a miracle in WANDA.”
— Marguerite Duras

“[WANDA] was the first time I had seen a heroine impelled entirely by what she didn’t want to do as opposed to being led by deep desires or passions. She drifts rather than strays.”
—Durga Chew-Bose

“I can’t imagine such a film ever having been made by a man. But [Barbara] Loden did make it, and she did everything.”
—Isabelle Huppert

Wanda has left her husband, abandoned her children, and hit the road — not in search of herself, not in search of really anything at all. This is the first and only film from writer-director Barbara Loden, here as the eponymous Wanda, a heroine of profound influence and fascination for everyone from Isabelle Huppert to Rachel Kushner, Kate Zambreno, and Durga Chew-Bose — as well as French writer Nathalie Léger, who penned Suite for Barbara Loden, the chronicle of her own obsession and desire “to get closer to the film and its maker.”

Featuring a post-film discussion with programmer Jenny McKeown and a pop-up shop on Sunday, November 10. Jenny McKeown is a native Texan and is the programmer and host of A Woman of Taste, a series that showcases her passion and focus for femme-centered stories and actresses. She plans to launch a website in the future, but she’s too distracted with collecting memoirs of dead actresses right now.

Suite for Barbara Loden is available for purchase at Alienated Majesty Books, in-person or online here.