On this episode of The Sci-Fi Film School we review the 1968 Sexploitation film Barbarella.

After an in-flight anti-gravity striptease (masked by the film’s opening titles), Barbarella, a 41st century astronaut, lands on the planet Lythion and sets out to find the evil Durand Durand in the city of 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 accomplished artist of the keyboard, in this case, Durand Durand himself, can drive a victim to death by pleasure, a lesbian queen who, in her dream chamber, can make her fantasies take form, and a group of ladies smoking a giant hookah which, via a poor victim struggling in its glass globe, dispenses Essence of Man.

Based on the popular French comic strip.

Starring Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Anita Pallenberg, Milo O’Shea & Marcel Marceau.

Rated R, Barbarella was released on October 10th, 1968 with a run time of 98 minutes.  It’s estimated budget was 9 Million dollars.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062711/?ref_=sr_1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarella_(film)

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