The Goddess of 1967

A Japanese man sees a car for sale online: a 1967 Citroën DS. He flies to Australia to buy it. But when he finds the seller there is a body, and the car is in somebody else's hands: BG, a young woman who is blind. She will let him have the car, but on one condition; he is to drive her into the desert, to her grandfather's farm. The title comes from the car: the DS's nickname in French is Déesse, goddess. Clara Law wrote the film with her husband Eddie Fong and directed it. As the journey goes on, why the woman wants to go to the desert emerges and the story opens backwards. Rose Byrne plays BG; it was her first leading part and she took the best actress prize at Venice in 2000. A hundred and nineteen minutes. The colours are heightened, the cutting is broken, and the film is not after realism.