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Goodbye Solo is a american film of genre Drama directed by Ramin Bahrani released in USA on 9 august 2008 with Souleymane Sy Savane
Goodbye Solo (2009)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 9 august 2008
Length 1h31
Directed by Ramin Bahrani
OriginUSA
Themes Films about suicide, Transport films, Films about the labor movement, Films about automobiles
Rating72%
Goodbye Solo is a 2008 American independent film written and directed by Ramin Bahrani. It premiered as an official selection of the 2008 Venice Film Festival where it won the international film critic's FIPRESCI award for best film, and later had its North American premiere at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival. The film is distributed by Roadside Attractions. The film exhibits significant thematic and plot similarities to Abbas Kiarostami's 1997 film Taste of Cherry.
Synopsis
Solo, a Senegalese cab driver, is working to provide a better life for his young family in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. William, an old man with a lifetime of regrets, hires Solo to take him to Blowing Rock, a peak in which updrafts cause objects that are dropped from it to fly upwards. William does not ask for a ride back from the rock and is obviously depressed, so Solo assumes that the old man intends to commit suicide there. Solo befriends William, in hopes of talking him out of ending his life. He introduces William to his wife and his stepdaughter Alex, hoping to inspire the old man with the joys of life.Actors
Souleymane Sy Savane
(Solo)
Red West
(William)
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