Barbarella*

(Fra/Ita 1967)

Perils of a beautiful astronaut in the far future who searches across the galaxy in pursuit of a fellow Earthling  who has a powerful destructive ray.
Sexy sci-fi fantasy very much of its time, a little too tongue-in-cheek to be enjoyed as an adventure, hurtling its star (whose career survived this oddity to go on to more po-faced material) from one over-imaginative set piece to another. A cult kitsch classic.

Written by: Terry Southern, Roger Vadim, Vitorrio Bonicelli, Clement Biddle Wood, Brian Degas, Tudor Gates, Claude Brule, Jean-Claude Forest, based on his comic.
Producer: Dino De Laurentiis.
Director: Roger Vadim.
Starring: Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Anita Pallenberg (dubbed by Joan Greenwood), Milo O'Shea, Marcel Marceau, David Hemmings, Ugo Tognazzi, Claude Dauphin.
Photography: Claude Renoir.
Music/Lyrics: Bob Crewe, Charles Fox.
Production Design: Mario Garbuglia.
Titles: Maurice Binder.

BARBARELLA. Jane Fonda as the 41st Millennium title heroine, less of a crusader for love (as she may have intended) than more of a cross between Brigitte Bardot and Penelope Pitstop.