The Goddess of 1967
Director: Clara Law
2000 / 119min / 4K DCP
The “Goddess” referred to in the title of Law’s flashback-studded postmodern road movie/character study is the vintage Citroën DS that JM (Rikiya Kurokawa), a well-to-do IT specialist living in barren luxury in Tokyo, travels to Australia to buy, only to be told on arrival by a young blind woman, BG (Rose Byrne), that the now-deceased sellers weren’t the vehicle’s actual owners, and that to complete the purchase he’ll have to drive five days into the Outback, with BG in tow. “Unlike any other contemporary Australian feature-filmmaker, [Law] betrays an astute, experimental attitude to the medium, an inclination to gather and juxtapose markedly different people and places and disparate cultural meanings (the Outback, machine and modernity, the city) and a strong interest in states of transition, dislocation, and isolation.” —Senses of Cinema
4K restoration
Distributor: Revenante Films
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