2008 Venice FIPRESCI Prize
The third feature film from Ramin Bahrani following Man Push Cart, Chop Shop, once more tackles America's immigrant underclass, however this time with a greater sense of lyricism, and not set in the crowded urban environment. Souléymané, aka Solo, a kind-hearted taxi driver in a small North Carolina town, is hired by William, a 70-year-old white southerner, to drive him to a mountaintop from which William plans to jump to his death in two weeks. But Solo decides to dissuade William by becoming his driver, and this odd couple begins an unexpected friendship.
