 Experimental filmmaker Marguerite Duras cited "Wanda" as an inspiration, particularly Loden's ability to inhabit her character onscreen, saying in an interview with Kazan, "I think that there is a miracle in "Wanda".Usually there is a distance between the visual representation and the text, as well as the subject and the action.Here this distance is completely nullified; there is an instant and permanent continuity between Barbara Loden and Wanda."