
My Wonderful Wanda
2021

Representation Score
Good
2022
TV-MADirector
María Paz González
Runtime
83 minutes
Average Rating
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Lina de Lima is a sophisticated deconstruction of class and gender hierarchies. By centering a domestic worker's psychological interiority, the film challenges traditional social structures and the invisibility of labor. The narrative succeeds by refusing easy moral resolutions. It instead explores how socioeconomic position shapes identity, power, and even psychological instability, offering a complex look at the Peruvian social order. While the film excels in its critique of systemic inequality, it remains focused on a specific, narrow psychological landscape rather than a broad spectrum of diverse identities.
Category Breakdown
The film explores repressed desire through non-traditional female-to-female attraction. It avoids explicit labels, instead using psychological obsession to disrupt conventional domestic expectations.
Lina is given psychological ability to act, subverting the role of the passive domestic worker. The narrative explores female autonomy and loneliness through her nighttime encounters.
The story centers on the lived experiences of the Latin American working class. It highlights the systemic disparities between domestic workers and the affluent class in Peru.
The film critiques capitalist structures and the inequality of the domestic labor system. It frames the protagonist's behaviors as psychological responses to systemic isolation.
There are no prominent depictions of visible or invisible disabilities that serve as central narrative drivers.
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Limited or Absent
Official Synopsis
It’s Christmas season. Ten years have passed since Lina traveled to Chile to work as a domestic worker away from her son who lives with her grandmother in Peru. Manuel, a former employer, ask her to supervise the construction of a swimming pool for his daughter Clara in his new house. In this half-inhabited space, Lina spends the day taking care of Clara, while at night, she has furtive sexual encounters with strangers that confront her with her deep solitude.

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