Barbarella (1968)
aka Barbarella: Queen of the Galaxy
Genre: Sci-Fi | Fantasy | Comedy | Adventure | Psychedelic
Country: France | Italy | Director: Roger Vadim
Language: English | Subtitles: English (Optional, embedded in Mp4 file)
Aspect ratio: Cinemascope 2.35:1 | Length: 98mn
Bdrip H264 Mp4 – 1920×816 – 23.976fps – 2.97gb
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062711/
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.
You’ve done such a great job of effectively building surveys of various directors’ work, including obscure titles and very hard-to-find rarities. That inclines me to inquire after another Vadim title
“La jeune fille assassinée” {a.k.a. “Charlotte”} (1974)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071694/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
It may only ever have appeared on VHS ? Another film blog managed to track down a low-res. black & white copy with Italian language only and no EN subs. If that’s the best that can be found, I’d say ‘never mind’ . . . but I’m still searching for a better looking copy with EN lang. or subs.
This one seems very hard to find (at least in its original language or dubbed in English)