One thing I’ve talked about over the years is my general lack of feeling guilty over the things I take pleasure in when it comes to entertainment. Why feel guilty over that, since it just means that you’re more concerned with the opinions of others about what you view than how you really feel about it. That said, if there’s a film that I’ll put in that category, it’s the 1968 film Barbarella. Getting this film and 2001: A Space Odyssey in the same year is definitely hilarious when you think about it.
Directed by Roger Vadim based on the comics of the same name by Jean-Claude Forest, the French-Italian project is about what you’d expect with its sexual proclivities, social message and just plain weird 60’s science fiction aspects. It’s nonsensical to be sure, as there’s little in the way of science in the fiction, but it’s a film that I saw at far too young of an age that left an incredible impression on me just from the opening sequence. As a pre-teen boy, damn but did I feel guilty and a little funny watching this film.
I revisited it on the recent Blu-ray release, which you can read our review of here.
Plot concept: In the far future, a highly sexual woman is tasked with finding and stopping the evil Durand-Durand. Along the way she encounters various unusual people.
