Buffalo '66

• 1998
• US
• 1h 50min
• 15

• Directed by: Vincent Gallo
• Cast: Vincent Gallo, Christina Ricci, Anjelica Huston, Ben Gazzara
• UK release: 2 October 1998

Life for Billy Brown is so awful that he reconstructs a life for himself from lies upon his release from a five-year spell in prison. Kidnapping a young girl named Layla, Brown concocts a story for his parents, who, it turns out, bear very little love for their son. Gallo has a black sense of humour, finding absurdity in lower-class American life, but it becomes clear that Buffalo 66 is a deeply life-affirming film.

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