| 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 (France) January 12, 1995 (Germany) March 30, 1995 (Spain) |
| Running time | 108 minutes |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | French |
A Pure Formality (Italian: Una Pura Formalità) is a 1994 thriller film directed and written by Giuseppe Tornatore. It stars Gérard Depardieu as a reclusive writer and Roman Polanski as a police detective.
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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.
A Pure Formality was nominated for a Golden Palm at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival.[1] It also received a David di Donatello for Best Production Design (Andrea Crisanti).
Several films are inspired by A Pure Formality's idea (1994) of the mystery of the living versus the dead. The best example is The Sixth Sense (1999) from M. Night Shyamalan, another is The Others (2001) from Alejandro Amenábar.
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