Barbarella

Barbarella, The year is 40,000. After peaceful floating in zero-gravity, astronaut Barbarella lands on the frozen planet Lythion and sets out to find renowned scientist Durand Durand in the City of Night, Sogo, where a new sin is invented every hour. There, she encounters such objects as the Excessive Machine, a genuine sex organ on which an expert artist of the keyboard, in this case, Durand Durand himself, can drive a victim to death by pleasure, a lesbian queen who can make her fantasies take form in her Chamber of Dreams, and a group of ladies smoking a giant hookah which dispenses Essence of Man through a poor victim struggling in its glass globe. You can not help but be impressed by the special effects crew and the various ways that were found to tear off what minimal clothes our heroine seemed to possess.

STARS: Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Anita Pallenberg

98 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy | 1968 | Color

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Essential Sci-Fi
This is eye candy from start to finish-- *including* one of the most baroque title sequences ever concocted (long before digital technology made this kind of playful titling standard). It's Franco-Italian design all the way through, a celebration of petroleum products and the best of the lava lamp aesthetic. Hard to tell if it's a parody of sci-fi or a parody of porn, or same difference is probably the point. There are some very stylized, sadomasochistic uses of Jane Fonda's long legs, at the same time that Fonda delivers the wittiest lines, in a very witty screenplay by Terry Southern (of Doctor Strangelove fame): "Decrucify my angel immediately!" (Kids, see if you can spot the Chucky in this 1968 precursor.) Skeptics should stay the course to learn what Duran Duran has to do with Barbarella. And Barbarella with the Black Queen. And the Black Queen with the Rolling Stones. And if you don't know what camp is, then you have to see Barbarella: even if the film is more sublime than camp, a kind of psychedelic Brechtian fantasia. (If that's not a contradiction in terms, then this isn't on my sci-fi shortlist.) One to own, to watch again and again.

Barbarella Psychedelica!
First off, let me say this movie is also a italian production, and i'm italian. This movie infact actually have two of the greatest italian actors, Ugo Tognazzi (also a great comedian, chef and director) and David Hemmings. Why David Hemmings? Is not the guy from the Gladiator? Yes, but in Italy we know him because he made the movie Gigolo and he worked with Antonioni (Blow-Up, a masterpiece of the 60's) and Dario Argento (Deep Red, did you remember that, with that scary soundtrack by the Goblins?)
The director here is the always great Roger Vadim (in USA we know him for his role in the John Landis extravaganza Into the Night) and in the cast we find his wife at the time Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law and Hemmings himself. Also this movie is a cult because he gave us the name of one of the most great band of the 80s: The Duran Duran!
This movie is a masterpiece and if Vadim didn't shot it em today we don't have The Wild Boys! Wild Boys, Wild Boys, Wild Boys!