Granted, campy cult classic Barbarella has nothing to do with the shift towards realism in American film and no, it isn’t even American… On the other hand, Roger Vadim’s sexy sci-fi romp is essential to any consideration of Jane Fonda’s career and you could make an argument that it laid the groundwork for her no-nonsense portrayal of sex work in Klute. Be that as it may, the movie is bubblegum fun and la Fonda is simply irresistible as the sex-positive star voyager.
Jane Fonda has the skittish naughtiness of a teenage voluptuary. She’s the fresh, bouncy American girl triumphing by her innocence over a lewd, sadistic world of the future.
Pauline Kael, The New Yorker
Roger Vadim
Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Anita Pallenberg, Cyril Cusack
France
1968
English
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Cinematography
Claude Renoir
Editor
Victoria Mercanton
Original Music
Bob Crewe, Charles Fox
Production Design
Mario Garbuglia
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