My Wonderful Wanda

Name: My Wonderful Wanda
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: April 23, 2021
Duration: 111 min
Rating: 54
Cast: Agnieszka Grochowska, Anatole Taubman, André Jung, Birgit Minichmayr, Bruno Rajski

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Kino Lorber | Release Date: April 23, 2021 | Not Rated

Starring: Agnieszka Grochowska, Anatole Taubman, André Jung, Birgit Minichmayr, Bruno Rajski, Gottfried Breitfuss, Iwo Rajski, Jacob Matschenz, Marthe Keller

Summary: Wanda (Agnieszka Grochowska) is a Polish caretaker who has left her own small children in Poland to look after Josef (André Jung) the stroke-ridden patriarch of the wealthy Wegmeister-Gloor dynasty. Wanda is adept in navigating the tricky family dynamics between the two grown (if still childish) offspring and the elegant if controllingWanda (Agnieszka Grochowska) is a Polish caretaker who has left her own small children in Poland to look after Josef (André Jung) the stroke-ridden patriarch of the wealthy Wegmeister-Gloor dynasty. Wanda is adept in navigating the tricky family dynamics between the two grown (if still childish) offspring and the elegant if controlling matriarch Elsa (Marthe Keller), along with the sporadic intervention of animals stuffed or alive. But an unexpected turn of events turns everything upside down. … Expand

Director: Bettina Oberli

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 111 min

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Anthony Ray Bench

Apr 22, 2021

A film called My Wonderful Wanda needed more exploration of the title character. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Apr 22, 2021

Death and new life, cultural prejudices and that Swiss obsession with money play into a film that is Germanic in its darkness, as subtle as a wet slap and funny? Eventually. Read full review

Alissa Simon

Apr 22, 2021

It’s an engaging, mostly well-acted tale, full of surprising twists, even if some seem a bit too on the nose. Read full review

Kristen Yoonsoo Kim

Apr 22, 2021

The film, written by Oberli and Cooky Ziesche, satirizes class divides and xenophobia (“the Pole” constantly carries a derogatory connotation here), but never takes the satire far enough to be memorable, challenging or anything beyond whimsical. Read full review

Gary Goldstein

Apr 22, 2021

Oberli and Ziesche, who’ve divided the story into three chapters plus an epilogue (the less said about the plot the better to protect a few solid twists), attempt to lay bare the thorny issue of outsourcing care work to migrants but don’t layer in enough heft or context to make a wholly satisfying statement. Read full review

Ann Hornaday

Apr 22, 2021

An engrossing but uneven comedy-drama. Read full review

Sheri Linden

Apr 22, 2021

Bettina Oberli is more interested in the interplay of her characters than a barbed look at geopolitics, an approach that clicks only to a point in this well-performed but overlong and uneven feature. Read full review

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