Taxi to the dark side

Goodbye Solo

(2008)

Another small story of immigrant life and/or life on the margins from Ramin Bahrani (Man Push Cart, Chop Shop): Souleymane Sy Savane plays the title character, a Senegalese taxi driver with aspirations to be a flight attendant, and Red West plays his curmudgeonly and apparently suicidal fare who becomes his unwilling friend. An intercultural Odd Coupling that is impossible to resist, mostly because of Savane's angelic portrayal.