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Synopsis: The year is 40,000. After peaceful floating in zero-gravity, astronaut Barbarella lands on the frozen planet Lythion and sets out to find renowned scientist Durand Durand in the City of Night, 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 expert artist of the keyboard, in this case, Durand Durand himself, can drive a victim to death by pleasure, a lesbian queen who can make her fantasies take form in her Chamber of Dreams, and a group of ladies smoking a giant hookah which dispenses Essence of Man through a poor victim struggling in its glass globe. You can not help but be impressed by the special effects crew and the various ways that were found to tear off what minimal clothes our heroine seemed to possess.
Director(s): Roger Vadim
Production: Universal Pictures
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
5.9
Metacritic:
51
Rotten Tomatoes:
74%
PG
Year:
1968
98 min
1,332 Views


I have programmed the craft to go to

a hidden location outside the labyrinth.

- You're a wizard, Ping.

- It's taking off even now.

There it goes. Perfect flight pattern.

Our rendez-vous point is 1600 hours.

Our password is...

"Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrn-

drobwIIllantysiliogogogoch."

You mean the secret is...

"Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrn-

drobwIIllantysiliogogogoch."

Exactly!

- Right?

- Right.

Headquarters signing off.

Headquarters signing off.

The time is right. The Queen

is in her Chamber of Dreams.

- What about the key?.

- The key!

- There is the secret key.

- Where?

It's invisible. Only an invisible key

can open an invisible wall.

Where?

My Mathmos... the key!

The key...

I have it!

I'll put it around your secret neck.

Invisible.

Now, the secret map that will lead you

to the 12th corridor.

What corridor?.

Good!

This way!

"Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrn-

drobwIIllantysiliogogogoch."

Long live the Revolution!

One moment.

I'm just not the tube type.

Excuse me. Could you tell me

how to get to the 12th corridor?.

I have a taste for you.

- What is it?

- Essence of Man.

Essence of Man?

So, you escaped the birds!

Just as well.

It is my turn for some amusement.

Come with me.

This way, please!

- What is this thing?

- You will soon see, my dear.

"Sonata for Executioner

and Various Young Women".

It's... sort of nice, isn't it?

Yes. It is nice... In the beginning.

Wait until the tune changes.

It may change your tune as well.

Goodness, what do you mean?

When we reach the crescendo,

you will die... of pleasure.

Your end will be swift,

but sweet... very sweet.

What is this? I don't believe it.

It couldn't be!

Wretched girl... What have you done

to my excessive machine?

You've undone it.

You've undone me. Look, look!

Energy cables are shrinking.

You've turned them into faggots.

You've burned out the excessive

machine. You've blown all its fuses.

My goodness!

You've exhausted its power.

It couldn't keep up with you.

Incredible! What kind of girl are you?

Have you no shame?

Shame! Shame on you!

You'll pay for this.

I've got something for you.

You'll wish you had died of pleasure.

Now you shall learn

the wisdom of the lash.

Haven't you done enough to me?

I'll do things to you that are

beyond all known philosophies.

Wait until I get my devices.

Duran Duran?

Oh, recognized me?

Recognized you?

I'd never have recognized you. I thought

you were only 25. What happened?

- The Mathmos is not without its effect.

- But you've aged 30 years!

The Mathmos has its own means of

nourishment. In return, it teaches truth.

Dr. Duran, could you hand me

a garment?

The President of the Republic of Earth

sent me here to save you.

- And to return you to Earth.

- Earth planet? Never!

Shall I tell you why?.

Because I know too much.

Here in Sogo I have learned

truth and essence.

I speak of the dignity,

the nobility of pure Evil.

My boots, please.

Humanism! Morals! Principles...!

It's rubbish! Nonsense!

I speak only of truth and of essence.

- Where is the Positronic Ray?.

- So, that's it.

What does it do?

All persons and objects within its path

are de-miniminized to the 4th level.

- You mean...?

- That's right.

Replaced in the

- But that's monstrous!

- Yes, it is. Isn't it?

Why didn't you take power

here in Sogo?

The Black Queen

must first be destroyed.

But as you know, she is always

surrounded by her Black Guards.

Whoever succeeds in killing her will

be put immediately to a horrible death.

Hence, my prudence.

I find horrible the idea that one could do

to me that which I do to others.

But I was told the Black Queen

is vulnerable while she sleeps.

Oh, yes. There are no Black Guards

in the Chamber of Dreams.

That's because there's

no access to the Chamber.

But, now's time for my pleasure...

and your death.

Wait!

I know how you can enter

the Chamber of Dreams.

- How?. Speak!

- I have the key.

- What does it look like?

- It's invisible.

Take me to the Chamber of Dreams.

After you, Barbarella.

To the right, Barbarella....

Now, to the left...

Stop.

Open it!

- This must be the invisible wall.

- Yes. Now, where's the key?.

- Come on, stop stalling.

- I'm trying to find the keyhole.

You're trapped. You're trapped

in the Chamber of Dreams.

- The Mathmos will devour you.

- Your Majesty!

It's no use. I've got the two keys.

The wall's sealed for all eternity.

Dr. Duran, give up this madness!

- Return to Earth with me now.

- I'll return to Earth, but as its conqueror!

Thanks to you, the Queen,

my last obstacle, has been removed.

Thank you, Barbarella.

Nothing can stop me now.

Today, Master of Sogo...

Tomorrow, Master of the Earth, Master

of the Galaxy, Master of the Universe!

Tell me, my fine, feathered friend,

what do you think of...

...when you make love to Barbarella?

An angel doesn't make love.

An angel is love.

Wake up, Your Majesty!

You must wake up.

Vade retro, Earthgirl!

I know you don't really exist.

That may be, Your Majesty.

But we'd better stick to what we see.

Wretched girl, what have you done?

No one must enter while I sleep.

Your Concierge is

taking over the throne.

- What are you saying?

- It's true. He's taken your key.

- We're locked in, Your Majesty.

- The key. He's stolen the key!

We are doomed... Doomed!

He said the Mathmos would devour us.

What did he mean?

It is said that unless I am alone

in my Chamber of Dreams...

...the Mathmos will claim me.

- It's the throne room.

- I can see all of the City and labyrinth.

Unfortunately, it's a one-way screen.

No one can see

that bloody dog has locked me in.

Your Majesty! We're under attack.

The creatures in the labyrinth.

They're revolting!

How dare he interrupt my coronation!

Dispatch the air armada!

Quick, Your Majesty, the labyrinth.

It's Dildano. He will save us.

- Your Majesty, they're all destroyed.

- Good.

- Not a creature left in the labyrinth.

- No aircraft left!

They have Earth weapons!

Fool! Liar! ldiots!

Must I do everything myself?

- I must destroy this rabble.

- He'll use the Positronic Ray.

It works!

It works... It works.

All is lost.

I must die, very well, but it is I

who shall have the last laugh.

The imbecile doesn't know

the secret of the Great Tyrant.

The supreme weapon.

I shall free the Mathmos.

- Do you think that's wise?

- Sogo will disappear.

It will be the end. The Apocalypse!

- Where are we?

- In the Mathmos. And alive!

I can see that, but why?.

The Mathmos created this bubble

to protect itself from your innocence.

That's nice.

No, no, stop! I command it.

I'm Duran Duran.

I'm Master of the Mathmos.

Fall back!

Fall back!

I'll destroy you with my Positronic Ray.

You're so good,

you make the Mathmos vomit.

Pygar! What did you do to Pygar?.

He was sent to the Mathmos, but was

no more digestible than you are.

You can't be dead.

You win, Barbarella. But the earth

has lost its last great dictator.

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Terry Southern

Terry Southern (May 1, 1924 – October 29, 1995) was an American novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and university lecturer, noted for his distinctive satirical style. Part of the Paris postwar literary movement in the 1950s and a companion to Beat writers in Greenwich Village, Southern was also at the center of Swinging London in the 1960s and helped to change the style and substance of American films in the 1970s. He briefly wrote for Saturday Night Live in the 1980s. Southern's dark and often absurdist style of satire helped to define the sensibilities of several generations of writers, readers, directors and film goers. He is credited by journalist Tom Wolfe as having invented New Journalism with the publication of "Twirling at Ole Miss" in Esquire in February 1963. Southern's reputation was established with the publication of his comic novels Candy and The Magic Christian and through his gift for writing memorable film dialogue as evident in Dr. Strangelove, The Loved One, The Cincinnati Kid, and The Magic Christian. His work on Easy Rider helped create the independent film movement of the 1970s. more…

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