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Jeremy Davies, however, brings some greasy-haired wistfulness to his performance as Paul, an American naïf in 1969 Paris editing the godawful Barbarella-esque Dragonfly, a sci-fi cheapie about a gorgeous secret agent (lanky and coy Angela Lindvall) in the year 2000.
The framing story is the nouvelle vagueâstyle tale of a young American filmmaker (Jeremy Davies, in his most down-to-earth performance) whoâs in 1969 Paris working on two radically different films: a black-and-white diary of his own daily life, including his relationship with a stewardess (played by Elodie Bouchez with a nod to Anna Karina), and a silly Barbarella-style sci-fi pic about youth rebellion whose star (model Angela Lindvall) has him under her spell.
At the center of CQ is Paul Ballard (Jeremy Davies) an aspiring young filmmaker living in Paris in 1969, where he is simultaneously working as an editor on Dragonfly a lavish, Barbarella-esque sci-fi movie while agonizing privately over the form and content of a far more personal 16mm project he is shooting in the confines of the apartment he shares with his French girlfriend Marlene (Elodie Bouchez, so good in The Dreamlife Of Angels ).
Jeremy Davies (in his first starring role since “Spanking the Monkey�) stars as an aspiring filmmaker living in Paris in 1969 and working as a film editor on a BARBARELLA-like sci-fi film, which is set in 2001--and that’s funny on many different levels.
An ambivalent aspiring filmmaker (Jeremy Davies) seeking inspiration in 1969 Paris, he's torn between his desire to make a conceptual, black-and-white New Wave art film and his day job editing a studio's cheesy, sexploitive "Barbarella"-like B-movie.
The real-world cast is rounded out by Dean Stockwell as Paul's myopic dad (yes, I "saw" the point about vision), and there's even a cameo by Barbarella star John Phillip Law.
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2026)
Directed by Gore Verbinski
influenced by Barbarella (1968)
Visuals
…which might be the director’s winking homage to Barbarella.