Pure Formality ( Una Pura formalità )

Pure Formality (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Una Pura formalità
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Cannes Film Festival
David Donatello Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
108 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1994 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )

Directed By:
Giuseppe Tornatore

Written By:
Giuseppe Tornatore (story) and
Pascal Quignard (story) ...

Actors:
Gerard 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

Synopsis:

The sweet sentimental gauze of director Giuseppe Tornatore's international hit Cinema Paradiso (1988) is nowhere to be found in this dark, Kafkaesque crime thriller that takes place, stage play-style, mostly in the confines of one room. Gerard Depardieu stars as Onoff, a famed author who has become a recluse in recent years, publishing nothing. Late one night he is picked up by police officers, who find him running across the French countryside in the rain, breathless and apparently suffering from short-term memory loss. A murder has been committed in the nearby woods, and suspecting Onoff's involvement, the authorities detain him at a leaky, dark command post to await the arrival of an inspector (Roman Polanski), ironically a fan of Onoff's work, who will interrogate his subject and try to arrive at the truth. Una Pura Formalita (1994) was produced simultaneously with Polanski's Death and the Maiden (1994), another film with a stage-bound quality featuring a long, stormy night's interrogation in a single room.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 24 September, 2007.

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