
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 fantas... (Full plot summary below)
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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.
Leave your thoughts about Barbarella.
| Movie Magazine InternationalMoira SullivanWhy did Jane make a film like this? Even she does not know herself. |
| Arkansas Democrat-GazettePhilip Martin...like a lot of truly terrible things from the '60s, Barbarella has acquired the patina of the cult classic, which means that as the cultural context has changed we are able to enjoy it for reasons other than those intended by the filmmakers |
| Capital Times (Madison, WI)Rob ThomasAn awful film, certainly, but also undeniably watchable. |
| VarietyVariety StaffDespite a certain amount of production dash and polish and a few silly-funny lines of dialog, Barbarella isn't very much of a film. |
| Groucho ReviewsPeter CanaveseClearly inspired by 1960s Batmania, the hunka hunka burning camp that is Barbarella adapted French science-fiction comic books into gleefully oversexed cinematic pop art. [Blu-ray] |
| Sci-Fi Movie PageRob VauxBarbarella couldn't exist in any era but the 1960s and its delightful over-the-top qualities find an ideal expression in the ridiculous excesses of the time. |
| Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)Brian GibsonA Flash Gordon-meets-Oz kitsch-fest stripping women's sexual revolution down to voyeuristic spectacle, flimsily dressed in cheap, see-through, psychedelic B-movie garb. Vadim imbues most scenes with a faux-arty lethargy that slumps into stiltedness. |
| Edinburgh U Film SocietyKeith H. BrownIt's not a film that tries to break barriers or provide deep and meaningful commentary on the nature and meaning of life -- it's a film which sets out to entertain and does so with considerable panache. What more do you need to know? |
| Slant MagazineBudd WilkinsA rambling, shaggy-dog structure as an excuse to flagrantly foreground softcore sexual hijinks tinged with a pungent whiff of social commentary. |
| Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenIt makes virtually no sense, but the costumes are fetishistic gems and the set design trips the light fantastic. A camp classic. |