Goodbye Solo

Check out my review of Rahmin Bahrani's latest film, Goodbye Solo, for The L Magazine. Continuing his stories of cultural outsiders struggling to achieve some scrap of the American Dream that's brought them so far, Solo tells the story of a Senegalese cab driver in Bahrani's hometown of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. As always, a subtle visual beauty and sense of craft makes Bahrani's humble films so much more than their synopses might suggest. Avoiding moral consecension or overblown story archs, they present simple stories of lives eeked out on the peripheries of brutally alienating systems. Read my whole review here.