Buffalo 66

Billy Brown's fairly miserable life crashes completely when the Buffalo Bills lose the 1991 Super Bowl. He is forced to confess a crime that he did not commit, as repayment for the 10 000 dollars that he has lost on betting. When he is released from prison five years later, he heads home to
h is parents who do not know that he has been in jail. On the way he kidnaps a young woman to play his wife.
With a bleak and washed-out colour scheme, and a deliberate imagery, Vincent Gallo has found a form that underlines the simple story. It is striking e.g. how he treats a long dinner-scene at the parents house; instead of, as is usual, shooting the dialogue ''overthe shoulder'' and ''cross-cutting'', he lets the camera take the position of each chair, one after the other. In this way, he creates a composition reminiscent of The Last Supper, with one person in the middle and one person on each side. Gallo says that such a principle must exist for each scene, to avoid laziness and plagiarism.
On Iy seventeen-year old Christi na Ricci, shows in her first mature film role that she is an actress of class. Even so Buffalo 66 is mainly Gallo's film. He plays the lead character, wrote the script, com-
posed the music, directed, and even designed Ricci's clothes and shoes. The story is partly auto-biographical, with his early years in Buffalo as background. The depiction of the parents bears traces of Gallo's real family, e.g. both Gallo's mother in real life and his mother in the movie are fanatic Buffalo Bills' fans. In interviews, Gallo often points out how important is was for him to leave his hometown and how fascinated he still is of the girls he never got close in his teen yearssomething that is hinted to in Buffalo 66, when Rosanna Arquette does a cameo as a former class mate with bullying attitude.
JACOB ABRAHAMSSON

Premiärstatus
Svensk premiär: Medverkande
Vincent Gallo, Christina Ricci, Ben Gazzara, Mickey Rourke, Rosanna Arquette, Anjelica Houston: Producent
Chris Hanley: Manus
Vincent Gallo: Foto
Lance Acord: Musik
Vincent Gallo: Talat språk
English