Elise McCredie, John Boxer, Nicholas Hope

"Goddess" stands for French "Déesse", the nickname of Citroën DS, the name of a famous car designed in the fifties. A young and well-situated Japanese man is dreaming of such a car, and one fine day h...( read more  read more... )e 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 as well as his wife lay dead in their house and a 17 year old girl lets him in and offers him something to eat. He walks out with horror but then comes back because he forgot to ask about the car... The 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.

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Directed by: Clara Law

Release Date: September 2, 2000

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DVD Release Date: March 27, 2007

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  • October 31, 2009
    Clara Law photographs a journey into wilderness, and very carefully, step by step, she brings to light the protagonist's sordid past of sexual abuse. Rose Byrne looks like she was made for this part. She shines throughout the film, and makes this difficult journey, worthwhile. It...( read more)'s not an easy film to watch, but it rewards you, with the wide mystifying shots of the wild landscape, and the charm of the "Goddess". Essentially, it feels like you're looking at two different films, until the two protagonists meet. His story, and her story. Luckily, in the end, the journey is theirs, both.
  • September 9, 2009
    Extraordinary.

    The Goddess of 1967 may be the most philosophical of all Law films. In terms of structure and characterisation, it bears a remarkable similarity to Autumn Moon: the chance encounter of a Japanese tourist with a local girl and their joint journey in search of sel...( read more)f-discovery and self-salvation.
  • September 30, 2008
    Clara Law,a female director I've been struggling to view for all of my cinematic adrenaline.Anyone has a copy???
  • May 4, 2007
    On 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 ...( read more)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.
  • April 15, 2007
    Not a ordinary movie. Low budget but still a interesting story. Love, abuse, some bizarre things, a citroen ds, all in one single movie.

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