Set in an unspecified future, the movie follows highly sexual Barbarella as she is assigned with finding and stopping the evil Durand-Durand, whose positronic ray, if not recovered, could signal the end of humanity.
7 February 1925, Reggio Emilia, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
21 July 1942, Montpellier, France
25 January 1944, Rome, Lazio, Italy
2 June 1926, Dublin, Irish Free State [now Ireland]
23 March 1922, Cremona, Lombardy, Italy
October 18, 1940 in Java, Dutch East Indies [now Indonesia]
2 August 1941, Peschiera del Garda, Verona, Veneto, Italy
21 December 1937, New York City, New York, USA
May 25, 1943 in Copenhagen, Denmark
18 November 1941, Guildford, Surrey, England, UK
22 March 1923, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France
April 2, 1943 in Montelepre, Palermo, Italy
5 September 1941, Viterbo, Lazio, Italy
12 March 1930, Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
12 December 1929, Milan, Lombardy, Italy
7 September 1937, Los Angeles, California, USA
19 August 1903, Corbeil-Essonnes, Essonne, France
June 17, 2014
Campy sci-fi cult classic features violence, nudity.
January 26, 2006
Terry Southern's dialogue occasionally sparkles, and the imaginative designs, as shot by Claude Renoir, look really splendid.
May 09, 2005
Throughout the movie, there is the assumption that just mentioning a thing (sex, politics, religion) makes it funny and that mentioning it in some offensive context makes it funnier.
April 17, 2007
The film is ugly on so many levels -- from art direction to human values -- that it's hard to know where to begin.
June 10, 2004
It's fun in a 'What were they smoking?' kind of way.
September 10, 2012
...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
July 02, 2012
"Barbarella" is the 1968 sci-fi that made Jane Fonda a household name. The opening credits feature a striptease that takes Fonda from a cumbersome space suit to her birthday suit. Her sex kitten looks were enough to drive young men crazy.
June 05, 2013
One of the most memorable of comic book adaptations ever conceived...
December 27, 2013
A 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.
April 17, 2007
Despite a certain amount of production dash and polish and a few silly-funny lines of dialog, Barbarella isn't very much of a film.
January 01, 2000
Fonda looks sensational and glides through this romp like a dazed, ripe-to-the- touch innocent.
