The Goddess of 1967

Wong Kar-Wai ("In the Mood for Love") meets Jim Jarmusch ("Broken Flowers") and flirts with Wim Wenders ("Paris, Texas") and David Lynch ("The Elephant Man", "Blue Velvet"). That'd be a simplified way of describing "The Goddess of 1967", a dazzling,... Full review

This film has two very redeemable qualities. The fantastic cinematography and the performance of Rose Byrne. The rest of the film however--While The Goddess of 1967 is very pleasing to look at, the actions of the characters are frequently shallow... Full review

I don't have time to go into in-depth considered praise for this film, but it's a film I have watched several times, and feel it deserves a pat-on-the-back. Although some of the underlying issues that the main characters have gone... Full review

Oi! How can I say how I felt about this film using actual words. This is a description that requires a lot of hand gestures.It moves in such a way that you are carried along with the action, not separated... Full review

Not many people have seen this film. Those who have seen it, will either hate it or love it. I loved it.The movie starts with a computer screen that says: I want to buy GOD.The Prologue doesn't have any human... Full review

This film does several things that are hard to read and harder to fully appreciate without being hammered over the head with the story's themes. The film is set up as a series of overlapping contrasts, and that is the... Full review

I went into the Cinema expecting... I don't know what. I knew it was a road trip picture with a Japanese man and Australian woman... they looked pretty enough on the poster. What I didn't expect was two very real... Full review

Superb, visually and emotionally stunning drama, following one young woman's battle to beat her inner demons. Rose Byrne plays BG, a blind woman of about 20, whose real problems date back to her childhood and even before she was born,... Full review

If you are driving or contemplating a purchase of a featureless economical car with automatic transmission, or if you have REALLY managed to bear the tedious 3 hours of `The Titanic' without leaving the theatre for a half-an-hour refreshment or... Full review

Clare Law was a successful blockbuster director while she was in Hong Kong, who made films like The Reincarnation of Golden Lotus. Her artistic ambition has taken her to another level of filmmaking. The Goddess of 1967 is highly experimental... Full review

What the Goddess of 1967 lacks in substance though it certainly makes up in style! Despite of the fact that the Goddess of 1967 (2000), Australian director Clara Law's latest film, manages to integrate a number of interesting themes together - alienation, incest, murder, romance - the sum of its parts is anything but intriguing. ... Full Review

The best road movies move through not only outer places and spaces but internal states aswell.....The Goddess of 1967 is a beautifully designed film which, once committed it, you hope will take you anywhere..... ... Full Review

They saddle up and head into the Australian interior, and since this is an independent film we know that, while they're ostensibly looking for the owner of the finely-tuned automobile they've commandeered (the "Goddess" of the title), they're ultimately searching for something far less tangible.In any good road movie, the journey's the thing: if it's not a voyage of self-discovery, we might as well pack up and go home. ... Full Review

As a lushly photographed road movie, The Goddess Of 1967 scores points for its stunning imagery, not least of which are the crisp, azure-blue Outback skies. The young man in the love story is a mysterious Tokyo businessman (played by Rikiya Kurokawa, a former Japanese boxer and model who awkwardly makes his film debut). ... Full Review

The Goddess of 1967 is a good name for a film, but the goddess in this case is a car, the Citron DS, which looks very cool but has nothing to do with the story, except that the characters use it to get around. The characters are likable and the settings are sublime, and it passes the road trip film test: You wish you were in the car with them, going wherever it is they want to go. ... Full Review

Clara Law is an artist at film, as distinct perhaps from a filmmaker whose primary ambition is to excite teenagers, say. Law's vision is always challenging and unique; her images on the screen are representative as much as naturalistic, and... ... Full Article

Two very different films on the same very old topic -- love, of course, in its multiple guises. By far the more ambitious is The Goddess of 1967 , invested by director Clara Law with her typical blend of cinematic... ... Full Article

Nobody was more surprised than Rose Byrne herself when she scored a Best Actress win at last year's Venice Film Festival as a blind woman in Clara Law's perplexing Goddess of 1967. ... Full Article

Thus begins the latest installment of the well-worn Quirky Road Trip Movie genre. Sure, the guy can have the car, but can he drop the girl off first? ... Full Article

Clara Law returns with The Goddess Of 1967.Just as the car is an object approaching perfection in beauty and design so does this film head for the same lofty goals. ... Full Article