| Science
fiction meets pop. The movie screen debut by one of the most endearing
characters to come out of European fantasy cinema in the sixties. Produced
by Dino De Laurentiis, directed by Roger Vadim and starring Jane Fonda
in Paco Rabanne creations, Barbarella is an amusing,
fresh, carefree and occasionally delirious film that doesn’t take
itself particularly seriously, which is in fact one of its greatest attractions.
A huge box office success when brought out, Vadim’s movie takes
place in the year 40,000 of our epoch. Galactic heroine Barbarella is
sent on a mission which could change the future of humanity. Comic strip
baddies, hand-made special effects plus heaps of ingenuity and joie de
vivre in this adaptation of the comic by Jean-Claude Forest. |
