
Barbarella, a Sixties icon
Barbarella; has this movie changed, or have I? When I first saw it, back in the sixties, it seemed the culmination of the awakening attitudes of freedom of thought, of sexuality and of humor. The fifties had been a grey era of conformity and our impatience with its formal stoginess had finally broken through.
Science-fiction combined with fantasy - Barbarella had it all, plus the amusing spectacle of Jane Fonda's beauty contrasting with her all-American, corn-fed accent. The plot was slight, the special effects unconvincing, but the charm of its actors carried one along to the end. Now it seems curiously dated and unconvincing, the attitudes stale.
Watch it for what it was and if you're my age, revel in the nostalgia for an age that seems as remote as the 1920's.
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