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Barbarella
1968
In this infamous film version of the popular French comic strip by Jean-Claude Forest, Jane Fonda plays the sexy yet innocent space-age heroine of the year 40,000 A.D. who never gets herself into a situation that requires too much clothing. BARBARELLA opens with the titular heroine stripping down to nothing in zero gravity .. Read more
| Starring | Jane Fonda, John Philip Law, David Hemmings, Anita Pallenberg |
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| Director | Roger Vadim |
| Genres | Sci-Fi/Fantasy |
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Barbarella
In this infamous film version of the popular French comic strip by Jean-Claude Forest, Jane Fonda plays the sexy yet innocent space-age heroine of the year 40,000 A.D. who never gets herself into a situation that requires too much clothing. BARBARELLA opens with the titular heroine stripping down to nothing in zero gravity among strategically placed credits. From there Barbarella embarks on a mission to find a peace-threatening young scientist named Duran Duran (Milo O'Shea) by order of the president of Earth. En route, she's attacked by killer dolls, is strapped into a contraption known as the Excessive Machine, and falls in love with a blind angel. Remaining true to its comic book origins, Barbarella's adventure unfolds in a series of dramatic difficulties and unlikely solutions, making for a galloping pace and never-ending opportunities for Mario Garbuglia's hallucinatory set design to dazzle. With guest appearances by 1960s icons Anita Pallenberg, Marcel Marceau, and David Hemmings and featuring dialogue by novelist Terry Southern, among others, BARBARELLA is not only a comic sci-fi sex romp but also a sly tongue-in-cheek portrait of the morality and debauchery of that era. And interestingly enough, Fonda was married to director Roger Vadim at the time of production.
| Starring | Jane Fonda, John Philip Law, David Hemmings, Anita Pallenberg, Milo O'Shea, Marcel Marceau, Ugo Tognazzi, Claude Dauphin, Giancarlo Cobelli, Serge Marquand, Veronique Vendell |
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| Director | Roger Vadim |
| Studio | PARAMOUNT HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 37 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Sci-Fi/Fantasy |
| Language | English |
| Dubbed | French, German, Spanish |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Subtitles | Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish |
| Released | DVD: 02 Oct 2000 Production year: 1968 |
| Format | DVD |
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The famed French comic strip comes to glorious psychedelic life in director Roger Vadim's 41st-century space opera. Once you get past Jane Fonda's infamous antigravity striptease however, the script turns rather dull and the imaginative sets steal the whole show as Fonda's nubile intergalactic bimbo experiences close encounters of the sexually bizarre kind. A pleasure machine, cannibalistic dolls and Anita Pallenberg's Black Queen help ease the verbal vacuum in Vadim's relentless visual assault, which is sure to delight some and prove tiresome to others.
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Campy and slightly sick adventures with angels and other space people, from a highly censorable comic strip; some ingenious gadgetry and design, but not much of interest in the foreground.
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8 out of 9 people found this review helpful
Still a Classic
I’d normally run a million miles from anything described as ‘Sci-Fi/Fantasy’. Am I the last person in the world never to have seen any of the Star Wars films?
But Jane Fonda camps this film up from the first minute of dialogue. The irony may be laid very thick with a heavy trowel here, but it suits me just fine. I’d forgotten the secret password for the underground rebels ‘Llanfairpwllg…etc’. Can’t imagine where Roger Vadim got that from – maybe it was David Hemmings’ idea.
Of course the DVD gives every schoolboy at heart the opportunity to freeze frame through the infamous opening sequence with Barbarella disrobing, but what little could be exposed is hidden by the Titles. Jane Fonda not only looks gorgeous in this film, she also sounds like the sort of woman you could never say no to :o). -
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
This is a cult classic and not just for those viewers who want to really see where Jane Fonda began before she became Mrs Ted Turner and beyond, then this is something to sit back and enjoy. The fact that it's a strange, indulgent trip into 60s psychedelia and the probable design inspiration for Austin Powers is something worth watching for as well.
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Barbarella sexiest sci-fi girl
- 10 Aug 2004
Jane Fonda's scantily clad saviour of the universe in the film "Barbarella" has been voted the sexiest science fiction character ever. Fonda's legendary performance in the 1968 classic came in ahead of fans' favourites like Princess Leia from "Star Wars" and Carrie Anne Moss' more recent portrayal of Trinity from "The Matrix". The opening credits of "Barbarella" feature Fonda getting undressed in zero-gravity - a scene so iconic that it was copied by... Read more
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Barbarella
In this infamous film version of the popular French comic strip by Jean-Claude Forest, Jane Fonda plays the sexy yet innocent space-age heroine of the year 40,000 A.D. who never gets herself into a situation that requires too much clothing. BARBARELLA opens with the titular heroine stripping down ...
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