The Goddess of 1967

Australia

2000

119 Min

Color

1.85:1

Japanese, English

Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
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EXEC Wouter Barendrecht, Akiko Funatsu, Helen Loveridge, Peter Sainsbury, Michael Werner

SCR Clara Law, Eddie Ling-ching Fong

CAST Rose Byrne, Rikiya Kurokawa, Nicholas Hope, Elise McCredie, Tim Richards, Bree Beadman, Satya Gumbert

ANIM Scott Otto Anderson

Venice (Competition): Best Actress, Toronto (Contemporary World Cinema), London (World Cinema), Rotterdam (Main Programme), Vancouver, Karlovy Vary (Forum of Independents)

Synopsis

A Japanese man searches the internet looking for his dream car, a 1967 Citroen DS (in French: Déesse, or “Goddess”) . He locates one in Australia and travels there to buy it. Upon his arrival he finds the seller dead. A 17 year-old blind girl tells him she can take him to find the real owner. Together they embark on a strange and erotic journey into the arid Australian desert, populated by abandoned mining towns – a desolate land and a dark haunting past. Before long, their separate quests become one: a shared desire to transcend the past and find redemption, achieved under the benevolent eye of the Goddess. –Trigon Film

Director

Clara Law

Clara Law (羅卓瑤) (born 29 May 1957 in Macau) is a Hong Kong film director, now having relocated to Australia before the 1997 Hong Kong handover.

She has produced several films focusing on the themes of migration and the identity crisis of Hong Kong people. Her most remarkable works include Farewell China (1990) and Autumn Moon (1992).

After she moved to Australia, she continued her film career and made several films including Floating Life (1996) and The Goddess of 1967 (2000), both have won numerous awards in Australia and film festivals around the world. Her latest film is Letters to Ali (2004), which deals with Australia’s refugee situation.

She often collaborates with her husband, Eddie Fong Ling-Ching, who usually is her screenwriter. —Wikipedia