
Jodhiyashu, a young and well-situated Japanese man is dreaming of such a car, and one fine day he finds an offering on the net. He calls the seller (a man living in Australia), they agree upon the price and so he travels to Australia in order to buy the car. But when he reaches his destination, there's chaos all around: The seller and his wife lay dead in their house and, Deirdre, a 17-year-old blind girl lets him see the car, and then they start a 5-day trip through the outb... (Full plot summary below)
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Jodhiyashu, a young and well-situated Japanese man is dreaming of such a car, and one fine day he finds an offering on the net. He calls the seller (a man living in Australia), they agree upon the price and so he travels to Australia in order to buy the car. But when he reaches his destination, there's chaos all around: The seller and his wife lay dead in their house and, Deirdre, a 17-year-old blind girl lets him see the car, and then they start a 5-day trip through the outback, and, at the same time, a trip back in time into the early youth of the girl and into her family's chronicle.
Leave your thoughts about The Goddess of 1967.
| Film ScoutsJason GorberI get the sense that if this film really clicks with you, it is something that you'd really love and hold dear. I, on the other hand, just couldn't get into the film. |
| eFilmCritic.comAndrew HoweYou may be surprised to find yourself revisiting key scenes for days afterwards. |
| User ReviewJoern SA Japanese business man, a blind girl (Rose Byrne @ her best) and a Citroen DS - a road movie without much action but with a deep insight in the characters and theirs stories all connected with the automobile. Moving, fascinating and a wonderful drama. Rose Byrne in a |
| User ReviewDimitris SA staggering blending of alternative values where orientation is lost even by the ones who aren't blind.Law torches sensitivity by deleting the primal instincts of any such conceptual difference,her body of work is (whatever the case may be) a research of emotional behavior through any series of events.Sexual desire is not restrained to just a physical grasp,it also motivates viewers to empathize,yell,express disappointment over the injustice in both characters' revision of their lives.A Man and a Woman,unidentified as is the case with most of us,wanderers of a worldwide outback. |
| User ReviewWaghhhh IA colorful blind woman and a Japanese man unfolding a mystery while driving the Goddess of 1967. |
| User ReviewTony BOn a basic level, it's a tale of contrasts. That of a naive, young Japanese man (Rikiya Kurokawa) and a blind Australian girl, Deidre (Rose Byrne). The movie tells of their journey through the Australian outback after the Japanese man travels to Australia in search of the car of his dreams, a classic French Citroen, or, 'The Goddess', have one guess what year its from.. Of course it's much deeper than that. The trip is not a vacation, but a journey of release particularly for the young woman who has been tormented for most of her short life by the horrible memories of her mother and grandfather. Unbeknownst to the young man he has been taken on a ride that will open his eyes to a world he never knew existed. In return, Deidre, encounters many things she has never experienced before from a man, compassion, honesty and true love. There is one brilliant scene i'll never forget where he teaches her to dance in a lonely bar in the middle of nowhere. To see the joy in the face of someone who has, in her unfortunate life, rarely experienced such feelings is truly uplifting. I had to watch that scene more than once. It's no doubt the coolest dance scene since Pulp Fiction. In the end, Deidre, finds the peace she is looking for. Perhaps not in the way she thought she might, but she does. And that's something she so much deserves. And performance wise, this film is perfect. Kurokawa does a brilliant job, but this is Rose Byrne's film here. This is by far THE performance of her career, which is weird to say considering it was one of her first films, and this is way before she even got started in any hollywood projects. Plus she won Best Actress at the Venice film festival for this, considering in the recent past that same award was given to Helen Mirren, Julianne Moore, and Imelda Staunton, you know it has to be good. |
| User ReviewJessy DTraveling wildly through forbidden and forgotten landscapes and through different eras, encompassing different scenarios of either graphic or tacit brutality, Clara Law experiments with two endlessly contrasting characters in a futile search of any means that may represent the construction of an eternal oblivion. Like a haunting sample of artistic cinema gathering New Wave tendencies and a couple of remnants of old Czech experimentation, The Goddess of 1967 is a surrealistic triumph of Aussie cinema thanks to the vision of an underrated cinema heroin. "I want to buy god" 97/100 |
| User ReviewAudrey FFilme australiano de quem quase ninguà (C)m ouviu falar. AtuaÃÃ,§ÃÃ,£o excepcional da Rose Byrne. I LOVE ROAD MOVIES !!! <3 <3 <3 |
| User Reviewran rI give my utmost respect to Australian film. |
| User ReviewAarón da experimental road movie masterpiece !!!! |