Solo is a 1970 film directed by Jean-Pierre Mocky. It is a French and Belgian co-production.
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Cast
Jean-Pierre Mocky as Vincent Cabral
Sylvie Bréal as Micheline
Anne Deleuze as Annabel
Denis Le Guillou as Virgile Cabral
René-Jean Chauffard as the redhead
Marcel Pérés as maitre d'hôtel
Alain Fourès as Éric
Production
Balzac Films is French and Belgian co-production between the Paris-based Balzac Films and Ciné Eclair and the Brussels-based Société Nouvelle Ciné Vog and Showking Films. The film 70% financed by the Paris companies and 30% funded by the Belgian companies. The film had a budget of 630,000 francs.
The film was director Jean-Pierre Mocky's first polar film. Mocky also performed as the lead in the film as Vincent Cabral, saying he was forty year old at the time but looked much younger and that "Young debutants, on the French film market were few. So, I still had my chance." The film was shot in 24 days in April 1969 in Paris, Brussels, Reims and Arras.
For the film's music, Mocky had his friend Georges Moustaki, the Greek musician compose it. Moustaki was initially set to score Mocky's directorial debut Les Dragueurs (1959).
Release
The film went unreleased until the next year. Mocky would in that time accept the offer to direct another comedy with Bourvil, L'Étalon (1970) in order for it to be released. Solo was released in France on February 27, 1970, just a few weeks after the release of L'Étalon. Solo had 660,000 spectators in France, which was less than L'Étalon which had 1,300,000 spectators.
Solo was released was released on blu-ray in June 2026 by Radiance Films.