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Goodbye Solo (2008)
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Writer/director Ramin Bahrani has become a champion of the outsider with his intimate studies of migrants finding their niche. His films, such as 2005's Man Push Cart, are authentic, witty and compassionate, and here he shows us how Frank Capra might have made Clint Eastwood's Gran Torino. Senegalese cabbie Solo (Souléymane Sy Savané) becomes suspicious when a despondent elderly man (Red West) books a one-way trip to North Carolina's Blowing Rock mountain several days in advance. So he digs into the old-timer's past and sets out to restore his faith in existence. But while Solo's young stepdaughter (Diana Franco Galindo) becomes his willing accomplice, his pregnant wife (Carmen Leyva) regards the enterprise as just another pipe dream. Mixing robust humour with measured melodrama, this scuffs the feel-good element with the brusque reality of life in an increasingly insular society. DP
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Running time
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91min
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Country of origin
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US
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Genre
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Drama
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Original language
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English / French / Wolof / Spanish
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Screenplay
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Ramin Bahrani, Bahareh Azimi
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Theatrical distributor
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Axiom
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UK cinema certificate
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15
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UK cinema release date
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October 2009
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