Director Guiseppe Tornatore's A PURE FORMALITY is a suspenseful, philosophical drama about the interrogation of a famous writer in a run-down provincial police station following a mysterious event that appears to have happened near the writer's home.
The film opens with the image of a gun turning toward the viewer, and the sound of a shot. Next, a man (Gerard Depardieu) is seen running desperately through the woods during a nighttime storm. Stopped at a police roadblock and taken into custody, the man says he is the famous and reclusive writer
Onoff. The inspector who interrogates him (Roman Polanski) is an admirer of Onoff's work, and tests the man by quoting p...
Released:
1994
Rated:
NR
Length:
108 mins