Goodbye Solo (2009)

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GOODBYE SOLO a film review
by KevynKnox in KevynKnox Blog

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"(this review was first published at www.thecinematheque.com) With obvious influential stylings from both the neorealist movement of post WWII Italy and the French Nouvelle Vague of the late fifties and early sixties, as well as director Ramin Bahrani's own ethnically-backgrounded national cinematic scene (though the US-born Irani-American Bahrani denies any influence whatsoever from his ancestral Persia) Goodbye Solo is a powerfully original and uniquely unpretentious American independent film from a filmmaker who is quickly becoming one of the best American directors in cinema today. Along with his first two features, Man Push Cart and Chop Shop, Bahrani has stumbled his way into the much-argued-about quasi-film-movement known in some circles as neo-neorealism. Much like Hollywood at the start of the Great Depression, with its socially conscientious storytelling and prophetic soap-boxing, today's American independent cinema, in its own financial straights, has begun a movement th ... " [More]

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"Looking up at her co-star Souleymane Sy Savane and noting the pain written on his face, child actress Diana Franco Galindo pulled aside Goodbye Solo director Ramin Bahrani to ask why it was that his character at this moment seemed so sad. “I don’t know; why do you think he is so sad?” Bahrani asked. Not having read any of the script beyond her own scenes, Galindo thought for a second on the question. Here, of course, is all the story background that she, in considering the question, knew nothing of: With this latest work, Bahrani studies the world of naturally jovial, curious taxi driver Solo who, in meeting cantankerous, suicidal fare William (Red West), is forc " [More]

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