CGiii Rating
Public Rating
Barbarella
Country: USA, Language: English, 98 mins
- Director: Roger Vadim
- Writer: Jean-Claude Forest; Claude Brulé
- Producer: Dino De Laurentiis
CGiii Comment
An utter fiesta of unbridled camp...
Unbridle yourself and run with the fairies. Love it or loathe it...but, in its day, you couldn't ignore it!
A film of the times!
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
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.
Cast & Characters
Jane Fonda as Barbarella;
John Phillip Law as Pygar;
Anita Pallenberg as The Great Tyrant;
Milo O'Shea as Concierge / Durand-Durand;
Marcel Marceau as Professor Ping;
Claude Dauphin as President of Earth;
Veronique Vendell as Captain Moon;
Giancarlo Cobelli;
Serge Marquand as Captain Sun;
Nino Musco;
Franco Gula;
Catherine Chevallier as Stomoxys;
Marie Therese Chevallier as Glossina;
Umberto Di Grazia;
David Hemmings as Dildano