A Pure Formality
{{Infobox film
| name = A Pure Formality
| image = Una Pura formalità.jpg
| caption = DVD cover
| director = Giuseppe Tornatore
| producer = Bruno Altissimi
Mario Cecchi Gori
Vittorio Cecchi Gori
Jean-Louis Livi
Alexandre Mnouchkine
Claudio Saraceni
| writer = Giuseppe Tornatore
Pascal Quignard
| starring = {{Plainlist|
| music = Ennio Morricone
| cinematography = Blasco Giurato
| editing = Giuseppe Tornatore
| studio = Cecchi Gori Group Tiger Cinematografica
DD Productions
Film Par Film
Orly Films
Sidonie
TF1 Films Production
| distributor = AFMD (1994, France)
Penta Distribuzione (1994, Italy)
| released = {{Film date|1994|05|18|France|1995|01|12|Germany|1995|03|30|Spain|df=y}}
| runtime = 111 minutes
| country = Italy
France
| language = French
| budget =
| gross =
}}
A Pure Formality ({{langx|it|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 police station one night, disoriented and suffering from amnesia. As the head of an isolated, rural police station the Inspector tries to establish events through careful interrogation and deduction. Through his painstaking inquiries, he eventually clears up a mysterious killing and brings the writer to a new and unexpected 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
- Massimo Vanni
Reception
A Pure Formality was nominated for a Golden Palm at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival.{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/2963/year/1994.html |title=Festival de Cannes: A Pure Formality |accessdate=2009-08-30|work=festival-cannes.com |archive-date=2015-10-19| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151019224810/http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/145228BD-4040-4F87-87A5-B5102C04DB70/year/1994.html}} It also received a David di Donatello for Best Production Design (Andrea Crisanti).
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|id=0110917|title=A Pure Formality}}
- {{youTube|OeQfPCQbsuU|Movie trailer A Pure Formality}}
{{Giuseppe Tornatore}}
{{Pascal Quignard}}
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Category:Films directed by Giuseppe Tornatore
Category:Italian thriller films
Category:1990s Italian-language films
Category:1994 crime thriller films
Category:Films scored by Ennio Morricone
Category:Sony Pictures Classics films
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