Director: Roger Vadim

Roger Vadim directed Barbarella and And God Created Woman and was married to Brigitte Bardot and Jane Fonda, both of whom he directed. His films were considerably more consequential for their handling of sexuality than for their craft.

Barbarella (1968) film posterRoger Vadim

Barbarella (1968)

Barbarella is the late-1960s French-Italian science fiction sex comedy that became a cult artifact more for its visual identity than for its plot. Jane Fonda plays Barbarella, a forty-first-century astronaut sent to recover the scientist Durand-Durand, whose Positronic Ray weapon…

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