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10 October 1968 (USA) moreTagline:
Who seduces an angel? Who strips in space? Who conveys love by hand? Who gives up the pill? Who takes sex to outer space? Who's the girl of the 21st century? Who nearly dies of pleasure? morePlot:
In the far future, a highly sexual woman is tasked with finding and stopping the evil Durand-Durand. Along the way she encounters various unusual people. full summary | add synopsisAwards:
1 nomination moreNewsDesk:
(56 articles)
La Grande Bouffe - Film Clips (From LateFilmFull. 23 June 2009, 4:29 AM, PDT)
Sigourney Weaver's Ripley named top woman in sci-fi
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Essential Sci-Fi moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Jane Fonda | ... | Barbarella | |
| John Phillip Law | ... | Pygar | |
| Anita Pallenberg | ... | The Great Tyrant | |
| Milo O'Shea | ... | Concierge / Durand-Durand | |
| Marcel Marceau | ... | Professor Ping | |
| Claude Dauphin | ... | President of Earth | |
| Véronique Vendell | ... | Captain Moon (as Veronique Vendell) | |
| Giancarlo Cobelli | |||
| Serge Marquand | ... | Captain Sun | |
| Nino Musco | |||
| Franco Gulà | |||
| Catherine Chevallier | ... | Stomoxys | |
| Marie Therese Chevallier | ... | Glossina | |
| Umberto Di Grazia | |||
| David Hemmings | ... | Dildano |
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2.35 : 1 moreSound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System)Certification:
New Zealand:R16 | Argentina:13 | Singapore:NC-16 | Australia:M | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) | Canada:G (Quebec) (cut US version) | Canada:PG (Manitoba/Ontario) | Finland:K-16 | France:-16 | Norway:15 | Sweden:15 | UK:15 (video rating) (1986) | UK:X (original rating) | USA:Approved | USA:PG (re-rating) (1977) (cut) | West Germany:16 | Iceland:LFilming Locations:
Dino De Laurentiis Cinematografica Studios, Rome, Lazio, ItalyFun Stuff
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Dildano's password, "Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch", is the name of a real village in Wales, United Kingdom (unsurprisingly, it's the longest place name in the UK). moreGoofs:
Revealing mistakes: When Barbarella is flying around in her spaceship in the opening credits, in a close-up as she removes her gloves you can see her reflection in the Plexiglas in which she was lying, on to give the illusion she was floating about. moreQuotes:
The Great Tyrant: Hello, pretty pretty.Barbarella: Hello...
The Great Tyrant: Do you want to come and play with me? For someone like you I charge nothing. You're very pretty, Pretty-Pretty.
Barbarella: My name isn't pretty-pretty, it's Barbarella.
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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.