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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 31 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 25, 2009
- Originally Released: 2014
- Label: Lions Gate
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Souléymane Sy Savané & Red West | |
Performer: | Diana Franco Galindo, Carmen Leyva, Mamadou Lam & Lane "Roc" Williams | |
Directed by | Ramin Bahrani | |
Screenwriting by | Bahareh Azimi & Ramin Bahrani | |
Produced by | Ramin Bahrani & Jason Orans | |
Director of Photography: | Michael Simmonds | |
Executive Production by | Brooke Devine & Brian Devine |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/5 --
An instantly gripping, funny, quietly persuasive drama that held me from the first frames.
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Guardian
Like all of Bahrani's films, GOODBYE SOLO is visually simple and stunning....But more important, GOODBYE SOLO is driven by deep feeling and sensitivity.
Washington Post
What distinguishes GOODBYE SOLO, beyond Savane's larger-than-life personality bumping up against West's intractable curmudgeon, is the continued particularity of Bahrani's work.
A.V. Club
Goodbye Solo is Bahrani's best film so far, better even than Chop Shop. The images produced by Michael Simmonds, his regular cinematographer, are more definitive, more miniature.
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MUBI
4 stars out of 4 -- Bahrani is the new great American director. He never steps wrong, In GOODBYE SOLO, he begins with a situation that might unfold in a dozen different ways and makes of it something original and profound.
Chicago Sun-Times
Goodbye Solo relies on forced character dynamics and two clunkily directed, monotonous turns, in a milieu...that fails to take satisfactory shape.
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Film Comment Magazine
Rating: 3/4 --
The young independent filmmaker Ramin Bahrani has crafted a careful and subtle movie about both the promise and despair of life that's told mainly in the faces of its two very different leads.
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Washington Times
Product Description:
For the follow-up to his critically lauded social-realist dramas MAN PUSH CART and CHOP SHOP, director Ramin Bahrani leaves New York City behind and returns to his home town of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Though the scenery has changed, Bahrani’s tender, humane vision remains. As with those previous films, Bahrani focuses his story on a cultural outsider, the type of person who usually gets relegated to a movie's background. Solo (Souleymane Sy Savane) is a Senegalese taxi driver whose latest fare, a weathered and despondent old Southerner named William (Red West), offers him big money to drive to a mountain peak, where it appears that William is going to commit suicide. A good-natured and kind-spirited man, Solo is disturbed by this revelation. Out of a deep sense of purpose, he embarks on a mission to save William.
Working with his main creative collaborator, cinematographer Michael Simmonds, Bahrani casts a luminous spell over his deceptively simple tale. The director, who also edits his films, keeps the story moving forward while allowing it to breathe. He also extracts flawless, fully lived-in performances from Savane and West. Though Bahrani’s previous films have been deservedly praised, he has vaulted himself into the top ranks of American indie directors with GOODBYE SOLO. This masterfully realized story of life and death is destined to stand as one of 2009’s best.
Working with his main creative collaborator, cinematographer Michael Simmonds, Bahrani casts a luminous spell over his deceptively simple tale. The director, who also edits his films, keeps the story moving forward while allowing it to breathe. He also extracts flawless, fully lived-in performances from Savane and West. Though Bahrani’s previous films have been deservedly praised, he has vaulted himself into the top ranks of American indie directors with GOODBYE SOLO. This masterfully realized story of life and death is destined to stand as one of 2009’s best.
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