Barbarella (1968) (15)
SCREENING AS PART OF FROM PAGE TO SCREEN FILM FESTIVAL
Tickets: Adult £6 | Cons & U25’s £5
Jane Fonda created a genuine icon when she leapt out of her spaceship as intergalactic government agent Barbarella, a wide eyed innocent on the trail of rogue scientist Durand Durand (Milo O’Shea). It’s 40,000 AD on kitsch planet Sorgo, and a host of characters featuring David Hemmings, Anita Pallenberg and mime legend Marcel Marceau help and hinder our heroine in her ‘investigation’. It took 9 writers to concoct the skimpy plot, propelling her into a succession of ever skimpier outfits – but what outfits! Costume designers Jacques Fonteray and Paco Rabanne, Production Designer Mario Garbuglia and Director of Photography Claude Renoir created a wildly imaginative future world, with sparkling dialogue from Terry Southern and a soundtrack spanning everything from lounge grooves to psychedelic rock.
Following this screening join Production Designer and The Future We Make exhibition curator, Caroline Greville-Morris, for a tour of the exhibition in the Allsop Gallery.
DIRECTOR | Roger Vadim
STARS | Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law and Milo O’Shea
SOURCE TEXT | Jean-Claude Forest’s comic Barbarella
SCREENWRITER | Jean-Claude Forest, Terry Southern & Roger Vadim with Claude Brulé, Vittorio Bonicelli, Clement Biddle Wood, Brian Degas, Tudor Gates and Charles B. Griffith.
Reviews
“Barbarella is a gift-wrapped ‘X’ certificate bonbon for a space-age nursery”