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  • 2021
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 51 m
  • 2021
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 51 m

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 controlling m...

Directed By: Bettina Oberli

Written By: Cooky Ziesche, Thomas Ritter, Bettina Oberli

  • 2021
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 51 m
  • 2021
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 51 m

My Wonderful Wanda

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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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 controlling m...

Directed By: Bettina Oberli

Written By: Cooky Ziesche, Thomas Ritter, Bettina Oberli

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 8 Critic Reviews
54
38% Positive
3 Reviews
63% Mixed
5 Reviews
0% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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38% Positive
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63% Mixed
5 Reviews
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80
Apr 22, 2021
A film called My Wonderful Wanda needed more exploration of the title character.
By Anthony Ray Bench FULL REVIEW
75
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.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
70
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.
By Alissa Simon FULL REVIEW
50
Apr 22, 2021
An engrossing but uneven comedy-drama.
By Ann Hornaday FULL REVIEW
50
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.
By Sheri Linden FULL REVIEW
50
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.
By Kristen Yoonsoo Kim FULL REVIEW
50
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.
By Gary Goldstein FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Zodiac Pictures, Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF), SRG - SSR, Teleclub AG
Release Date Apr 23, 2021
Duration 1 h 51 m
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Website https://www.facebook.com/zodiacpictures/
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Awards

Tribeca Film Festival
• 1 Win & 5 Nominations
Mons International Festival of Love Films
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Vancouver International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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