Barbarella is a 1968 French-Italian science fiction film based on Jean-Claude Forest's French Barbarella comics. The film stars Jane Fonda in the title role and was directed by Roger Vadim, who was Fonda's husband at the time. The film was not popular at its release, but received greater attention afterward with a 1977 re-release. It has since become a cult film.
In an unspecified future, Barbarella is assigned by the President of Earth to retrieve Doctor Durand Durand from the Tau Ceti region. Durand Durand is the inventor of the Positronic Ray, a weapon that Earth leaders fear will fall into the wrong hands. Barbarella crashes on the 16th planet of Tau Ceti and is soon knocked unconscious by two mysterious girls, who take Barbarella to the wreckage of a spaceship. Inside the wreckage, she is tied up and several children emerge from within the ship. They set out several dolls which have razor sharp teeth. As the dolls begin to bite her, Barbarella faints but is rescued by Mark Hand, the Catchman, who patrols the ice looking for errant children. While Hand takes her back to her ship, Barbarella offers to reward Mark and he suggests sex. She says that people on Earth no longer have penetrative intercourse but consume exaltation transference pills and press their palms together when their "psychocardiograms are in perfect harmony". Hand prefers the bed, and Barbarella agrees. Hand's vessel makes long loops around Barbarella's crashed vessel while the two have sex, and when it finally comes to a stop, Barbarella is blissfully humming. After Hand repairs her ship, Barbarella departs and promises to return, agreeing that doing things the old-fashioned way is occasionally best.
I haven't seen ya in the longest time
I gotta say, can't get ya off my mind
I'm like a shakin' fool
Whoo ooo...
Lately I'm dining on gin and sake
I'd like to dress you like a rich Iraqi
So separated
Whoo ooo...
I'm in the secret cellar
You're becoming Barbarella
I don't know why, I don't know when
I don't know where to get up
So stay around
I'll tell you secrets in the night
oooh oooh...
She came out looking like some Cinderella
Walked out the door becoming Barbarella
It's hard to keep my cool
Whoo ooo...
I'm in the secret cellar
You're becoming Barbarella
I don't know why, I don't know when
I don't know where we'll get up
So stay around
And tell me secrets in the night
oooh oooh...
Keep holding questions with a million answers
We got pedestrian Brazillian dancers
Who like to break the rules
oooh oooh...
I'm in the secret cellar
You're becoming Barbarella
I don't know why, I don't know when
I don't know where to get up
So stay around
I'll tell you secrets in the night
oooh oooh...
I'm in the secret cellar
You're becoming Barbarella
I don't know why, I don't know when
I don't know where we'll get up
So stay around
And tell me secrets in the night