The Goddess of 1967

The Goddess of 1967 is a 2000 Australian film directed by Macauborn Australian Clara Law, who wrote the script with her husband and previous script collaborator Eddie LingChing Fong. The film is about a rich young Japanese man Rikiya Kurokawa, who travels to Australia with the intention of buying a Citron DS car the goddess of the films title nicknamed the Desse, after its initials in French, desse being French for goddess that he has found for sale on the net. Once there things do not quite go as planned ... and he ends up on a road journey with a blind girl Rose Byrne.

The storyline opens in Tokyo where JM Rikiya Kurokawa, a rich young IT worker and sometime computer hacker, is attempting to purchase a 1967 model Citron DS, or Goddess, as it is known to French car aficionados. JM lives in a pristine but unfriendly hitech apartment. The smog filled city is bluegrey and bleak. He rarely speaks to his livein girlfriend and is preoccupied with other possessionshis latest snorkeling gear as well as the pet snakes and other exotic reptiles he keeps in the flat. After tracing, on the Internet, a perfectly restored Citron owned by a couple in Australia, JM abandons his job and flies out to purchase the rare car, which he thinks can fill the emptiness in his life.No one meets JM at the airport but he eventually finds the home where the car is located and meets BG Rose Byrne, a blind and emotionally unstable young woman. BG, who is minding a young child, explains that the couple did not actually own the Citron and that the husband shot his wife and then killed himself after a violent argument over money. She shows him the car and tells him, after he has test driven it, that she can take him to its real owner, who is somewhere in the outback, a fiveday drive away. Intoxicated by the vehicle, JM agrees. BG abandons the young child at the bloodsplattered house, instructing her not to trust anyone. ........

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