A Pure Formality

A Pure Formality

Infobox Film
name = A Pure Formality


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director = Giuseppe Tornatore
producer = Bruno Altissimi
Mario Cecchi Gori
Vittorio Cecchi Gori
Jean-Louis Livi
Alexandre Mnouchkine
Claudio Saraceni
writer = Giuseppe Tornatore
Pascal Quignard
narrator =
starring = Gérard Depardieu
Roman Polanski
Sergio Rubini
Nicola Di Pinto
Tano Cimarosa
Paolo Lombardi
Maria Rosa Spagnolo
music = Ennio Morricone
cinematography = Blasco Giurato
editing = Giuseppe Tornatore
distributor =
released = flagicon|France May 18 1994
flagicon|Germany January 12 1995
flagicon|Spain March 30 1995
runtime = 108 Min
country = ITA
language = Italian
budget =
website =
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imdb_id = 0110917

"A Pure Formality" is the English title for "Una Pura formalità", a film released in 1994, directed and written by Giuseppe Tornatore. It stars Gérard Depardieu as a reclusive writer and Roman Polanski as a police detective.

Plot summary

In this thriller, Depardieu's character is Onoff, a famous writer who is now a recluse. The Inspector (Polanski) is suspicious when Onoff is brought into the station one night, disoriented and suffering a kind of amnesia. As the head of an isolated, rural police station the Inspector tries to establish events through careful interrogation and deduction. By painstaking inquiry, he clears up a mysterious killing and brings the writer a new and strange realisation.

Reception

"A Pure Formality" was nominated for a Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival in 1994. It also received a David di Donatello for Best Production Design (Andrea Crisanti).

External links

*imdb title|id=0110917|title=A Pure Formality


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