- The Goddess of 1967
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director =Clara Law
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starring =Rose Byrne Rikiya Kurokawa
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released = 2000
runtime = 119 min.
country = AUS
language = English / Japanese
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imdb_id = 0255195"The Goddess of 1967" is a 2000 Australian film directed by
Macau -born AustralianClara Law , who wrote the script with her husband (and previous script collaborator)Eddie Ling-Ching Fong . The film is about a rich young Japanese man (Rikiya Kurokawa ), who travels to Australia with the intention of buying aCitroën DS car (the goddess of the film's title - nicknamed the "Déesse", after its initials in French, "déesse" being French for "goddess") that he has found for sale on the net. Once there things do not quite go to plan ... and he ends up on a road journey with a blind girl (Rose Byrne ).The film was partly filmed in and around
Lightning Ridge inNew South Wales, Australia .It won several awards, including best actress for Rose Byrne at the 2000
Venice Film Festival and best director at theChicago Film Festival .The song from the dance scene between BG and JM is
Walk-Don't Run (the 1964 version) byThe Ventures .External links
*imdb title|id=0255195|title=The Goddess of 1967
* [http://colsearch.nfsa.afc.gov.au/nfsa/search/display/display.w3p;adv=yes;group=;groupequals=;holdingType=;page=0;parentid=;query=Number%3A469739;querytype=;rec=0;resCount=10 The Goddess Of 1967 at the National Film and Sound Archive]
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