A Pure Formality (1994)

Original title

Una pura formalità

Directed by

Giuseppe Tornatore

Genre

thriller film

Country

France, Italy

Runtime

1h 48m

Rated

12

Rating

7.4 of 10 from 394 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A famous writer is found by police wandering in a storm and brought to a remote station for questioning. The detective interrogates him about a murder, and the conversation peels back layers of truth and memory.

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What happens

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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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