Buffalo '66

Name: Buffalo '66
Director: Vincent Gallo
Released: 1998

Vincent Gallo

1998

4.43

Synopsis

Billy is released after five years in prison. In the next moment, he kidnaps teenage student Layla and visits his parents with her, pretending she is his girlfriend and they will soon marry.

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Cast

Vincent GalloBilly Brown
Christina RicciLayla
Ben GazzaraJimmy Brown
Anjelica HustonJan Brown
Rosanna ArquetteWendy Balsam
Jan-Michael VincentSonny
Kevin CorriganRocky the Goon
Mickey RourkeThe Bookie
Kevin PollakTV Sportscaster
Alex KarrasTV Sportscaster

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100
Entertainment Weekly
It's all somehow both familiar and dazzling, just as Ricci's kidnapped tap student, forced to pose as the protagonist's wife for his horrifically indifferent parents, is somehow both nondescript and heartbreaking.
90
Los Angeles Times
Alternately satirical and romantic, full of pain and humor, Buffalo '66 is a winner.
80
Film Threat
Gallo transcends the medium in a manner I only associate with David Lynch. It's brilliantly spooky.
80
The New York Times
Cool, stark compositions and the occasional audacious visual trick give Buffalo '66 a memorable look even when its narrative enters the occasional uneventful stretch.
78
Austin Chronicle
In the end, it's a love story after all, but a peculiarly Gallocentric one -- cheap, nasty, but salvageable nonetheless.
75
Chicago Sun-Times
Plays like a collision between a lot of half-baked visual ideas and a deep and urgent need. That makes it interesting…and the film contains an astonishing performance by Christina Ricci, who seems to have been assigned a portion of the screen where she can do whatever she wants.
75
ReelViews
Gallo's script is quirky and filled with a number of hilariously strange comic moments.
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
By turns raw, naturalistic and indebted to John Cassavetes, both stylistically and thematically.

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