Contentar Best movie of this year hands down!

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Hayleigh Joseph This is ultimately a movie about the very bad things that can happen when we don't address our unease, when we just try to brush it off, whether that's to fit in or to preserve our self-image.

Staci Frederick Blistering performances.

samhill5215 I find films that deal with the messier parts of human family interactions difficult to watch, especially when done convincingly. This film does just that. No matter one's beliefs regarding life and death, you know that Grandpa had much to atone for and perhaps was even deserving of death as punishment for his actions. But when the story reached its conclusion I found myself strangely satisfied that no other outcome was possible. I was relieved because any other outcome would have imposed some intolerable burdens. Salvation lay in the affection between the two protagonists.I sought this film out for Rose Byrne and was not disappointed. She is one phenomenal actor with an amazing range and the ability to mold herself into any personality. Her performance is worth the film's nearly two hours running time. The direction was flawless and the camera work simply astounding. Some of the visuals were nearly hypnotic in their beauty, such as the scenes of the sky dotted with clouds and the DS in the foreground.My gripes are minor. I found it a bit too long. There was too much of Byrne's character stumbling around feeling her way about. We get it, she is blind, we don't need constant reminding. I don't know that so much of that added anything and at least in my case it detracted. Then the car: how is it possible that it survived in this pristine condition? No tears in the upholstery, the chrome impeccable, no mechanical defects, showroom ready. Even in western Australia's dry climate one would expect some wear and tear.As I said these are minor gripes. "The Goddess of 1967" is a significant achievement in cinematic history especially given the absence of special effects, action-packed sequences and copious amounts of blood and gore.

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.

ETCmodel02 This film does several things that are hard to read and harder to fully appreciate without being hammered over the head with the story's themes. The film is set up as a series of overlapping contrasts, and that is the part I'm most stricken by. Contrasts of culture, morality, experience, gender, needs and conclusions. The film sets up expectations for the characters, then proceeds to change said expectations as the characters evolve and reveal like layers peeling away. I'm awed by much of the delicate caress of the pacing, and the contrast of the beautiful way many of the scenes are shot against the contents of the scenes themselves. I adore this film.