A Pure Formality
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| A Pure Formality | |
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| Directed by | Giuseppe Tornatore |
| Produced by | Bruno Altissimi Mario Cecchi Gori Vittorio Cecchi Gori Jean-Louis Livi Alexandre Mnouchkine Claudio Saraceni |
| Written by | Giuseppe Tornatore Pascal Quignard |
| Starring | Gérard Depardieu Roman Polanski Sergio Rubini Nicola Di Pinto Tano Cimarosa Paolo Lombardi Maria Rosa Spagnolo |
| Music by | Ennio Morricone |
| Cinematography | Blasco Giurato |
| Editing by | Giuseppe Tornatore |
| Release date(s) |  May 18, 1994 January 12, 1995 March 30, 1995 |
| Running time | 108 Min |
| Country |  Italy |
| Language | Italian |
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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. It is in Italian.
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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).
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