A Pure Formality
A Pure Formality | |
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DVD cover | |
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 |
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Music by | Ennio Morricone |
Cinematography | Blasco Giurato |
Edited by | Giuseppe Tornatore |
Production company |
Cecchi Gori Group Tiger Cinematografica DD Productions Film Par Film Orly Films Sidonie TF1 Films Production |
Distributed by |
AFMD (1994, France) Penta Distribuzione (1994, Italy) |
Release date |
18 May 1994 (France) 12 January 1995 (Germany) 30 March 1995 (Spain) |
Running time | 108 minutes |
Country |
Italy France |
Language | French |
A Pure Formality (Italian: Una pura formalità) is a 1994 Italian-French drama thriller film co-written and directed by Giuseppe Tornatore. It stars Gérard Depardieu as a reclusive writer and Roman Polanski as a police detective.
Synopsis
Onoff (Depardieu) is 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.
Cast
- Gérard Depardieu - Onoff
- Roman Polanski - Inspector
- Sergio Rubini - Andre, the Young Policeman
- Nicola Di Pinto - Captain
- Tano Cimarosa - Servant
- Paolo Lombardi - Marshall
- Maria Rosa Spagnolo - Paula
- Alberto Sironi
- Giovanni Morricone
- Mahdi Kraiem
- Massimo Vanni
- Sebastiano Filocamo
Reception
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 share A Pure Formality's idea of the mystery of the living versus the dead, including The Sixth Sense (1999) by M. Night Shyamalan and The Others (2001) by Alejandro Amenábar.
References
- ↑ "Festival de Cannes: A Pure Formality". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-08-30.