Goodbye Solo
Monday 21 Feb, Gibsons Heritage Playhouse, 7:30pm
Presented by the Sunshine Coast Film Society
Ramin Bahrani is a director who is finding a style of American cinema that is different from both Hollywood commerce and indie-Sundance drear: his new movie is an instantly gripping, funny, quietly persuasive drama that held me from the first frames.
Souleymane Sy Savane gives a superbly likeable performance as Solo, a Senegalese taxi driver in North Carolina. One day, he picks up a morose old white guy called William, played by Red West, who offers Solo $1,000 to take him to a remote and dangerous beauty spot on a certain date. The exuberant and compassionate Solo suspects that William wishes to make away with himself, and so tries to involve himself in his life, even insisting that William coach him for his upcoming Airline Flight Attendant exam.
The film has been likened to Kiarostami's 1997 classic & Palme d'Or winner, The Taste Of Cherry, which it has much in common with stylistically and thematically. However Goodbye Solo is nonetheless entirely distinctive: about friendship and perhaps also about the impossibility of ever really knowing another person.
Souleymane Sy Savane gives a superbly likeable performance as Solo, a Senegalese taxi driver in North Carolina. One day, he picks up a morose old white guy called William, played by Red West, who offers Solo $1,000 to take him to a remote and dangerous beauty spot on a certain date. The exuberant and compassionate Solo suspects that William wishes to make away with himself, and so tries to involve himself in his life, even insisting that William coach him for his upcoming Airline Flight Attendant exam.
The film has been likened to Kiarostami's 1997 classic & Palme d'Or winner, The Taste Of Cherry, which it has much in common with stylistically and thematically. However Goodbye Solo is nonetheless entirely distinctive: about friendship and perhaps also about the impossibility of ever really knowing another person.
For more information on Goodbye Solo which screens tonight at Gibsons Heritage Playhouse see the Sunshine Coast Film Society website.
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