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Synopsis: 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.
Director(s): Roger Vadim
Production: Universal Pictures
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
5.9
Metacritic:
51
Rotten Tomatoes:
74%
PG
Year:
1968
98 min
1,194 Views


...until they have reached

a serviceable age.

- Serviceable?

- Then I capture them just as you saw.

- I turn them over to the authorities.

- I see.

Thank you.

Ever heard the name Duran Duran?

I know nothing. I live alone on icey

Weir. Such is a catchman's life.

Only in Sogo will you find

the answer to your question.

- Sogo? Is it near?.

- It's just beyond that ice-deck.

Did I see your spacecraft

at the far edge of this lake?

Yes, but I'm afraid it's broken down.

- Magnetic storms ruined my stabilizer.

- Perhaps, I can help.

I'm quite experienced mechanically.

I service and maintain this icecraft.

- If you wish, I'll take you to your ship.

- But there's no wind.

Hold on.

- What a lovely cabin!

- Wind.

I'm so grateful for your help.

How can I ever thank you?

I'm sure my government

would repay you.

If there's anything I can do,

please tell me.

You could let me make love to you.

- Make love?

- Yes.

You don't even know

my psycho-cardiogram.

On earth people don't make love...

...unless their psycho-cardiograms

are in perfect confluence.

You asked me what you could do

for me. And I told you.

All right.

But I don't see what good it will do.

- Do you have any pills?

- Pills?

- Never mind, I have some here.

- What is this pill?

An exaltation transference pill,

of course.

- I know nothing of this.

- I see.

On earth when our psycho-cardiograms

are in harmony for lovemaking...

...we take

an exaltation transference pill.

And remain like this.

Here let me show you.

For one minute or

until full rapport is achieved.

I don't care for that.

This is what I mean...the bed!

That?

But nobody's done that for centuries!

Except the poor who can't afford

the pill or psycho-cardiograms.

- Why not?

- It impedes maximum efficiency.

Also substitutes for ego support

and self-esteem are now available.

- So, you won't do it?

- If you insist, I guess so.

But there's really no point

at all in doing it like this.

- Without your garments, please.

- Oh.

Now I'll have a look at your stabilizers.

Since your garment is torn, help

yourself to my furs, Barbarella.

I think I've found the trouble.

You may proceed now to Sogo.

It's there you will find Duran Duran Jr.

If he still lives...

Good.

Now, Barbarella,

don't you agree with me...

...that in some things,

the old-fashioned ways are best?

What...? Oh, that.

Yes, I must admit it

was rather interesting.

Still, it is distracting.

- Are you coming with me to Sogo?

- No, I prefer the tranquility of Weir.

Sogo is too strict,

the people too dedicated.

Perhaps you'll stop here again...

at the end of your mission.

Yes, perhaps I will...

Well, goodbye. And thanks again...

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Terry Southern

Terry Southern (May 1, 1924 – October 29, 1995) was an American novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and university lecturer, noted for his distinctive satirical style. Part of the Paris postwar literary movement in the 1950s and a companion to Beat writers in Greenwich Village, Southern was also at the center of Swinging London in the 1960s and helped to change the style and substance of American films in the 1970s. He briefly wrote for Saturday Night Live in the 1980s. Southern's dark and often absurdist style of satire helped to define the sensibilities of several generations of writers, readers, directors and film goers. He is credited by journalist Tom Wolfe as having invented New Journalism with the publication of "Twirling at Ole Miss" in Esquire in February 1963. Southern's reputation was established with the publication of his comic novels Candy and The Magic Christian and through his gift for writing memorable film dialogue as evident in Dr. Strangelove, The Loved One, The Cincinnati Kid, and The Magic Christian. His work on Easy Rider helped create the independent film movement of the 1970s. more…

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