THE GODDESS OF 1967
A review in bullet list form by Mark R. Leeper
From the Toronto International Film Festival

Capsule; A young Japanese yuppie with odd tastes travels to Australia to buy a rare 1967 Citroen Goddess. He finds to buy it he must drive cross-country with a blind woman. Through flashbacks we piece together her story and some of his. One the story is reconstructed it is cliched and melodramatic. Style is more unusual than the content.
Rating: 0

-- Strange Japanese man on road trip with enigmatic, blind, Australian woman

-- Starts with Japanese man on PC typing "I want to buy a Goddess." Turns out to be a Citroen Goddess.

-- Man likes snakes, feeds then mice

-- Dickering price on Internet

-- In Australia strange owner, blind, claims must take a 5-day trip to get owner to sell car

-- Road movie with flashbacks telling woman's story

-- Remembering sexual abuse by grandfather

-- Grandfather living isolated thought he could make own rules

-- Distorted colors, orange washed out

-- When in car backgrounds through window are impressionist

-- Aussie dusty vistas vs. memories of Japanese crowded city

-- At first seems pointless but bits of stories collect in puzzle to put together

-- Parental sexual abuse (overused theme)

-- One powerful scene at end

-- Long, slow, and often not of much interest

-- Filmed in Australia and Japan

-- Dialog style like early Jim Jarmasch films, long pauses between lines