BallWubba Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.

Numerootno A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

Tymon Sutton The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

xjones While some of the content of the film was not something I enjoy watching, there were two things that I did enjoy. The first was the slower, unrushed pace at which the story unfolded. Many times you were left to absorb the characters and situations without the writers feeling the need to fill up the silence (both words and movement). The second aspect I enjoyed *very* much was the photography. I have not seen a film with such fabulous photography in many a while. Certainly the Australian outback is a lovely creature but seemingly almost every frame was beautifully composed as well as displaying very rich and striking colours or -- when in not in the sunny outdoors -- tonal contrast. In addition, many of the camera movements added to the feeling of the story rather than be a distraction as in so many movies. The photography was such that I actively looked for the director of it in the credits, which thing I rarely do.

suejones65 I loathe the phrase "It's only a movie", as in, "it's not real, they're only actors, don't let a film affect your emotions". If you're not going to lose yourself in a good film or become emotionally affected, perhaps learn something, or find entertainment value, then what's the point, or the fun. Obviously it's only a movie, but I for one can relate to scenarios, or start to equate a film to real people's lives, envisioning the woes and traumas of dark story lines affecting people all too vividly in the real world. There are certain scenes in certain films that haunt me and stick in the back of my mind like an ugly memory, making the fact that the film was great or not a mute point. No, I don't want to put blinders on keeping myself ignorant to despair, enabling it to continue, however these scenes that haunt me, I could live without and wish I could erase from memory! GODDESS OF 1967 has a few such scenes which I found particularly disturbing and I wish I had never seen this film because of those few disturbing scenes. I can't find this film beautiful or look at it strictly as an artistic endeavor with attempts at social commentary. The degree of victimization and acts of desperation to survive which the main character is driven to, is truly depressing, regardless of the lessons or outcome. I did not get enough value or mind opening insight from this film to make it worth watching. People who's projected imagination and human empathy are less vivid than mine, will probably have a much milder take on this film.

kyoto1981 Ended up seeing this film(looked like it was shot on HD camera though) on Sundance Channel this morning by coincident, or otherwise I would never see it or known/heard of it for the rest of my life although I see films indiscrimatorily and very frequently.Despite the buzz it received at festivals around the world, it's just too damn hard to find films like this. Plot is rather interesting... a young Japanese guy coming to Auttraria to pick up his car. Indeed this reminds me of Jim Jarmusch's "Mystery Train", which definitely must have inspired the writers. Cinematography... from student cinematographer's point of view, was generic. It looked like just another graduate thesis from every film school around America: Tarkovsky-alikes. Personally I am tired of seeing films like that. Production designer and sound people didn't do their jobs so that the film made me think that it was a student film(, and scene at a noodle stand in Japan... too fake, man!).

blueharv Visually impressive in a way that few films are, The Goddess of 1967 is a sumptuous feast for the eyes. Unfortunately all the eye candy in the world can't save a film that suffers dreadfully from being extremely self indulgent. There's nothing wrong with a slow film as evidenced by such cinematic gems as The Thin Red Line so long as the winding narrative path takes the audience somewhere. The Goddess of 1967 fails in this regard. Ponderous and meandering, The Goddess of 1967 is a tedious example of a film overly impressed with its own importance.