Buffalo '66

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Movie
German title Buffalo '66
Original title Buffalo '66
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1998
length 110 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Vincent Gallo
script Vincent Gallo
Alison Bagnall
production Chris Hanley
music Vincent Gallo
camera Lance Acord
cut Curtiss Clayton
occupation

Buffalo '66 is an American drama released in 1998 . Directed by Vincent Gallo , who also took on the leading role, composed the score and wrote the script with Alison Bagnall .

action

Billy Brown bets $ 10,000 on the Buffalo Bills' victory at the Super Bowl , but the team loses due to a missed field goal from kicker Scott Wood . Because he cannot pay the gambling debts with his bookmaker in any other way, he pleads guilty as compensation for a crime committed by a friend of the bookmaker. In prison he forges a plan to kill the Buffalo Bills kicker after his release, because he is convinced that he has been bribed. In his letters to parents Jimmy and Jan he lies that he is married and professionally successful.

It was the second time that a defeat of the Buffalo Bills, his mother's favorite team, had a decisive negative impact on his life: in 1966, the year the Bills took part in the final, his mother could not cheer on her team in the stadium because she was in Hospital gave birth. She always blamed him for this defeat.

After being released, Billy has to visit his parents first. On the way there he uses the toilet of a dance school and spontaneously kidnaps the dance student Layla, whom he forces to impersonate his wife in front of his parents. The reception is cool; neither the amoral , brutal father nor the mother, who is totally fixated on sports, is particularly interested in Billy. Layla is charming and attracts significantly more attention from her father. Angry about this, Billy breaks his promise to let Layla go after the visit and forces her to stay with him. He keeps her at a distance with his desperate anger and rudeness - but she falls in love with him as the day progresses.

They go to the Buffalo bowling alley , the only place where Billy feels recognized and at home. Only now does he allow Layla to go, but she stays with him; they spend the evening together. You take a hotel room; Billy sets out to shoot the football player. While she is waiting for his return, which she has made him promise, the deed and its consequences are happening in his mind's eye: that he too will have to kill himself. Only when faced with this inner decision does he realize that he also has the choice of a future worth living in, and now allows his love for Layla.

synchronization

All information according to the German synchronous index .

actor role German speaker
Vincent Gallo Billy Brown Alexander Brem
Christina Ricci Layla Anna Carlsson
Anjelica Huston Jan Brown Marianne Gross
Ben Gazzara Jimmy Brown Michael Telloke
Mickey Rourke The bookmaker Ekkehardt Belle
Rosanna Arquette Wendy balm Carin C. Tietze

Reviews

James Berardinelli wrote on ReelViews that the "bizarre and darkly funny" film tells about the redemption of an almost unbearable character with numerous phobias. Billy Brown is violent and incapable of intimacy. The "quirky" script offers some very funny moments. Christina Ricci creates a three-dimensional character who has to convince any doubter who would question her abilities. The film is energetic, but some flashbacks are superfluous; nevertheless he is a successful directorial debut for Gallo.

Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times on August 7, 1998 that "immature visual ideas" collide with what is necessary in the film, which makes the film interesting, however. The “striking” portrayal of Christina Ricci seems as if she could do anything she wanted on the screen.

The Lexicon of International Films wrote that the film was an "interesting directorial debut" by Vincent Gallo. The “stylistically artful” flashbacks would “fit into the plot of the present time” and “the desolation of the present, which is outwardly made clear in a static and sparse image design”.

Awards

Vincent Gallo was in the running for the Grand Jury Prize of the Sundance Film Festival , the Special Grand Prize of the Deauville Film Festival , the Gotham Award and the Bronze Horse of the Stockholm Film Festival in 1998 . In 1998 he won the Special Prize of the Young Jury at the Gijón International Film Festival and was nominated for the Grand Prix Asturias . In 1999 he won the Rotterdam International Film Festival's MovieZone Award . Christina Ricci received the Seattle International Film Festival's Golden Space Needle Award in 1998 and the Florida Film Critics Circle Award in 1999 ; she was nominated for the Chlotrudis Award in 1999.

The film received a special award from the National Board of Review in 1998 . Vincent Gallo and Chris Hanley were nominated for the Independent Spirit Award in the Best First Feature category. The film was also nominated for the 1999 British Independent Film Award .

backgrounds

The film was shot in Buffalo and several other locations in New York State . Its production amounted to an estimated 1.5 million US dollars . Some scenes were filmed in the house where the director grew up as a child. Gallo said in an interview that the characters of the main character's parents were modeled on his own parents. The world premiere took place on January 21, 1998 at the Sundance Film Festival , which was followed by several other film festivals. The film grossed around US $ 2.4 million in US cinemas with around 507,000 viewers. In France there were around 176,000 cinema viewers, in Germany around 55,000 and in Spain around 28,000.

The momentous miss of the kicker Scott Wood is inspired by the real fate of Scott Norwood of the Buffalo Bills in Super Bowl XXV .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry Bufallo '66 in the German synchronous index
  2. ^ Film review by James Berardinelli, accessed January 11, 2008
  3. ↑ a b Film review by Roger Ebert, accessed on January 11, 2008
  4. ↑ Buffalo '66 in the Lexicon of International FilmsTemplate: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used , accessed January 11, 2008
  5. ^ Filming locations for Buffalo '66, accessed January 11, 2008
  6. ↑ a b Box office / business for Buffalo '66, accessed January 11, 2008
  7. ↑ Buffalo '66 premiere dates, accessed January 11, 2008
  8. ↑ Retracing Buffalo '66, one location at a time , Buffalo Spree