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| | For Wanda |
 | | Wanda's historical importance lies precisely at this junction: Loden wanted to suggest, from the vantage point of her own experience, what it meant to be a damaged, alienated woman not to fashion a new woman or a positive heroine. |
 | | When Wanda has lost everything: her shelter in her sister's house, her husband, her children, her job, whatever self-respect she had left when the travelling salesman dumped her, and finally her last dollars stolen in the movie theatre when she has nothing to lose, this is the moment she meets Mr. |
 | | Wanda's single-minded stubbornness reminded me of the third part of Je, tu, il, elle (1974), in which we see the protagonist (also played by the director of the film, Chantal Akerman) literally forcing her way into the home of a former lover she is still obsessed with. |
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