Goodbye Solo (2008)

Essential Viewing

USA

Feature Film

Original Title Good Bye Solo

Director: Ramin Bahrani

Writers: Bahareh Azimi, Ramin Bahrani

Cinematographer: Michael Simmonds

Composer: M. Lo

Cast: Souleymane Sy Savane, Red West, Diana Franco Galindo, Lane 'Roc' Williams, Mamadou Lam, Carmen Leyva

Featuring a pair of subtly affecting performances, Bahrani’s compassionate and painfully yet beautifully human film follows a vivacious Senegalese taxi driver’s attempts to befriend a regular customer, a grizzled, cantankerous, chain-smoking old man, who he realises is planning to kill himself, in the hopes of changing his mind. Iain.Stott