Goodbye Solo
United States
2008
91 Min
Color
1.85:1
English
Synopsis
Comedy drama set in North Carolina about a Senegalese taxi driver who is determined to prevent an elderly fare from committing suicide. –BFI
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Ramin Bahrani
Ramin Bahrani was born March 20, 1975 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina to Iranian parents. He received his BA from Columbia University in New York City. His first feature film, Man Push Cart (2005), premiered at the Venice Film Festival (2005) and screened at the Sundance Film Festival (2006). The film won over 10 international prizes, was released theatrically around the world, and was nominated for three Independent Spirit Awards.
Bahrani’s second film Chop Shop (2007) premiered at the 2007 Director’s Fortnight of the Cannes International Film Festival, and then screened at the Toronto International Film Festival (2007) and the Berlin International Film Festival (2008) before being released theatrically to wide and universal critical acclaim. Bahrani was awarded the prestigious 2007 Someone to Watch Independent Spirit Award. In 2008, he was nominated for Best Director Independent Spirit Award.
Goodbye Solo, Bahrani’s third feature film, premiered… read more
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Trevor Kwong
25Jan13
Bahrani is a filmmaker I will always go back to to remind me that filmmaking is not just a possibility for immense pleasure--it can improve the world, simply by existing as something made with extreme compassion. These are the types of films that alter my perception of the world the most in terms of how to see people. It is a duty to make films with this amount of kindness if we even want to try to be filmmakers.
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20Jan13
The taste of cherry in Bahrani’s film is granted sweet new flavour through its own set of social drama and diversity: an immigrant taxi driver, eagerly awash in the American Dream, and a jaded senior, over the American Dream, his final journey uniting the two. But Bahrani’s camera is nothing alike to Kiarostami’s - its loquacious dynamism linking it more to Jarmusch’s Night on Earth, in its heartfelt pitting of class relations in America: of young and old, black and white, joy and sadness, and the softening rapprochement. A lot of heart.
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"The facts don't really matter:" An Interview with Ramin Bahrani, Part 2
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky on February 18, 2010
This is the second part of a two-part interview. Part one can be found here. *** IGNATIY VISHNEVETSKY: In writings about your films, versimillitude
"The facts don't really matter:" An Interview with Ramin Bahrani, Part 1
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky on February 17, 2010
Ramin Bahrani speaks clearly and assertively. He knows what he wants; even more admirably, he seems to know exactly why he wants it. He can
Now in theaters: "Goodbye Solo" (Bahrani, USA)
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky on April 3, 2009
Above: William (Red West) and Solo (Souleymane Sy Savane), in Ramin Bahrani's Goodbye Solo. It’s one of those strange accidents of moviegoing
Now in theaters: "Goodbye Solo" (Bahrani, USA)
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky on April 3, 2009
Above: William (Red West) and Solo (Souleymane Sy Savane), in Ramin Bahrani's Goodbye Solo. It’s one of those strange accidents of moviegoing
TIFF Review: GOODBYE SOLO
By Twitchfilm.com on May 17, 2011
Ramin Bahrani’s Goodbye Solo stands as proof that you don’t need a lot of flash to create compelling film. All you need, really, are actors willing to bury themselves deeply into some compelling, believable
TIFF Review: GOODBYE SOLO
By Twitchfilm.net on July 16, 2010
Ramin Bahrani’s Goodbye Solo stands as proof that you don’t need a lot of flash to create compelling film. All you need, really, are actors willing to bury themselves deeply into some compelling, believable
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By Jeremy Moss on February 19, 2010
Respectable film. I must say though that the story itself … the whole two-unlikely-friends thing is less than satisfying. However, Bahrani’s approach and the film’s tone did indeed work for me… read review
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By Jazzaloha on November 30, 2009
Peabody’s review is harsh, but understandable if Savane’s (Solo) performance didn’t convince and win him over. To me, the success of the film largely depends on that, and for me, Savane’s performance… read review
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By Adam Suraf on May 4, 2009
The third film from the highly talented Iranian-American director Ramin Bahrani is a beautifully sculpted examination of human interaction and compassion, filmed, like “Man Push Cart” and “Chop Shop”… read review
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