Goodbye Solo (2008)

[lsanderson]

Goodbye Solo,with Red West, left, and Souleymane Sy Savane, the third feature film by Ramin Bahrani, opens on Friday in Manhattan.
March 27, 2009
For a Buoyant Cabby, a Ride to Remember
By A. O. SCOTT
Published: March 27, 2009

The story told in “Goodbye Solo,” Ramin Bahrani’s wonderful third feature, is moving and mysterious, and you may find yourself pondering its implications for a long time after the film’s simple and haunting final images have faded. But it all begins matter-of-factly enough with a conversation between a taxi driver and his passenger, who proposes an unusual business arrangement. More