In her soul-searching homage to the former pin-up girl famously married to Hollywood giant Elia Kazan, the biographer’s evocative powers are put to the test. How to paint a life, describe a personality? Inspired by the film, a researcher seeks to piece together a portrait of its creator. Loden’s 1970 film Wanda is a masterpiece of early cinéma vérité, an anti-Bonnie-and-Clyde road movie about a young woman, adrift in rust-belt Pennsylvania in the early 1960s, who embarks on a crime spree with a small-time crook. Shortlisted for The French-American Foundation Translation Prize 2017įirst published in France in 2012 to critical and popular acclaim, this is the first book about the remarkable American actress and filmmaker Barbara Loden. Winner of the 2016 Scott Moncrieff Prize for Translation from the French Translated from the French by Natasha Lehrer and Cécile Menon
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