This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

Good concept, poorly executed.

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

.Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

This movie has to take top marks for imagination. It begins with an obsessed Japanese man, who meets a blind 38 year-old woman in Australia. They travel together. There are flashbacks.Try not watching this film: I don't think you will be able to. The images, the settings, the strange way it is told. See what happens when women make movies! See a female director credit and always go, you will never be disappointed.Clara Bow was born in China (Macao) and has two different Chinese names, according to IMDb. She first made films in China, in Chinese. She must be quite a character: try finding out anything much about her. She's pretty elusive.Rose Byrne --- a-a-a-ah! Rose is gorgeous, her depiction of the blind woman is superb. Her Japanese leading man is a knock-out, too.This film is a great package: definitely take it in.

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 through are in many respects very serious and macabre, I don't think it was the director's intent to make this a depressing movie which dwells on those issues alone. Goddess is an art movie. It's designed to be visually different and controversial for its handling of subject matter. Blindness, incest, murder, dysfunctionality. An unexpected combination of events against the spectacular backdrop of the Australian outback. Ironically, the central character is blind, and cannot see all this visual beauty directly. But, she somehow finds a strength and sensitivity amongst the far from beautiful physical abuse she grown up with. Somehow with this is intertwined an ex-fashion model from Japan, and a cult car. It's an artistic celluloid canvas. I don't think an average director could put all these elements together and come off with a really watchable and intriguing movie. I love the central character's feisty, yet carefree independence. Free-spirited female viewers will love this. I think most male viewers will miss the subtlety of the movie's intent, and will therefore not enjoy it so much. Makes a really refreshing change from your regular Hollywood flick.

"The Goddess of 1967" is a maddeningly pretentious film that tries too hard to capture the flair and dynamism of new-wave film-making without the artistry to back it up. The film's first half is almost unbearable, but there are some more conventional moments in the latter stages that lend the work some much needed credibility. Clara Law's directing technique is first-year film school stuff with a lot of unnecessary appendages that do little other than distract; and the story is a fairly stale reworking of tired old themes about betrayal, revenge and redemption built upon on a narrative of incest and sexual transgression. The Japanese sub-plot and characters seem tacked on to lend an air of otherness that seems redundant. The failure of the approach is emphasised by the weak script that often times reads likes poor poetry (I was reminded of David Brent's "Excalibur"). Even Rose Byrne's gorgeous face can do little to make this film watchable.

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 from the action by this big "movie". It has a fly on the wall feeling to it, and it all fits together. Each scene, well each shot really, fits perfectly jigsawed in with those surrounding it. Very polished and precise. It seems to just naturally happen, not forced. Even the frequent use of flashbacks came off as natural and easy.Very beautiful to look at. Warm colors and textures. Very sweet, real romance.Humanity peeled down to most raw and simple. I was pulled by the shirt-collar through each path of the story. I really couldn't have stopped watching it even if I had wanted to (which I didn't). Very controlled, purposeful tension.Beautiful.