Review of Barbarella (1968) by Renata Adler for The New York Times — 26 Oct 1979
The movie, written by Terry Southern and seven other writers and based upon a comic strip, rapidly becomes a special kind of mess. All the gadgetry of science fiction—which is not really science fiction, since it has no poetry or logic—is turned to all kinds of jokes, which are not jokes, but hard-breathing, sadistic thrashings, mainly at the expense of Barbarella, and of women.
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This review of Barbarella (1968) was written by Renata Adler and published by The New York Times on 26 Oct 1979.
Barbarella has generally received mixed reviews.
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