Directed by:
Roger VadimCinematography:
Claude RenoirComposer:
Charles FoxCast:
Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Anita Pallenberg, Milo O'Shea, Marcel Marceau, Claude Dauphin, David Hemmings, Ugo Tognazzi, Antonio Sabato, Joan Greenwood (more)VOD (3)
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The year is 40,000 on Planet Lythion where Barbarella (Jane Fonda) makes a forced landing during a secret mission to find the lost evil scientist Durand Durand. Once there, she must use her skills, style, beauty and eroticism to vanquish evil in the form of robots and monsters. See Barbarella do her thing in the wild excessive machine, in the biting bird cage, in the chamber of dreams, in the labyrinth of love, in the deadly doll house, in the palace of pleasure. You'll find adventure beyond your imagination, when you get lost in space with Barbarella. (Paramount Home Entertainment)
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A comic book film created out of the ongoing sexual revolution, which speaks for itself. The markedly extravagant sci-fi bizarreness, which combines soft-eroticism and biblical motifs with fetish passages (e.g., smoking the “essence of a man" from a giant pipe in which several naked men swim) still enchants with visual originality, extraordinary craziness and self-ironic (hard to say if it’s intentional) humor. It's naive cheesy nonsense, but at the same time very entertaining, psychedelic and filmed with unprecedented creative zeal. The stories about the film's life in the subsequent years and its connection to Jane Fonda's private life are amazing.
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Anyone who is even a little more interested in the character that is Roger Vadim must categorically reject the idea that Barbarella is either an intentional parody of the genre or a seriously intended film that got out of the hands of the creators. Vadim simply wanted to shoot a lighter soft-erotic film in the backdrop of the comic sci-fi world. And with the help of the youthful charms of Jane Fonda, he succeeded. It's not a good film, but it has such an entertainingly trashy form that it can attract many people. It truly only steals from the sci-fi genre. Fonda considered her performance in Barbarella as a bigger mistake than all her divorces and love affairs combined, and considering her feminist orientation, she was right. The film is one of the commercial consequences of the crisis in the film industry of the 60s when new forms of expression and limits of the possible were sought. The eroticism contained in the film now seems hopelessly funny and naive, but just a few years earlier, such a film would not have been released at all. Overall impression: 30%.
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Yes, it's silly, but it's entertaining silliness and an irresistibly naive attempt at light eroticism on the movie screen. The age of the Flower Power and the beginnings of the sexual revolution are on full display in this comic book adaptation. It's a sex-fuelled romp, with a sexy Jane Fonda in tight-fitting costumes – she is a joy to watch. The way a sweaty Jane destroys the executioner’s orgasmatron is a feat worth of an entire platoon of erotic warriors :) Also worth mention are the extravagant costumes and set design. On a side note, in its day Barbarella was often featured in midnight screenings.
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This is unbelievable nonsense that is simply a fetish at first glance. Though I'm not normally into fetishes, I surprisingly liked this. I haven't read the comic, unfortunately, but hopefully, I'll get to it sometime. Some scenes here are so crazy that you can't help but laugh. David Hemmings is perfect and Jane Fonda is beautiful. Her opening scene is great, and I must admit, I spent more time thinking about how they simulated zero gravity so well almost 50 years ago.
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The film is the result of the Vadim/Fonda marriage, making it naive, funny, sexy. And stupid in places. Yet it's such a distinctive notch in pop culture that it's impossible to miss. The latest adventures are being released under the Dynamite brand, and there's already been a Barbarella/Dejah Thoris crossover. What more could you want?
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