Film Background
From the director of the BAFTA winning film Atonement, Joe Wright, and starring Oscar winner Jamie Foxx and Oscar nominee Robert Downey Jr, comes a poignant film based on a true story. The Soloist is inspired by the multi-faceted, real-life relationship of LA journalist Steve Lopez and musician, Nathaniel Ayers, once a Juilliard prodigy now mentally disturbed and living rough on the streets.
The director was inspired by the abstract films of the 1970s, in particular the work of Stan Brakhage and Len Lye when it came to the Synesthesia sequence, where musical genius, Ayers, visualises music as colour.
