A Pure Formality (Blu-ray)
From Giuseppe Tornatore, the acclaimed director of Cinema Paradiso, The Legend of 1900, The Best Offer and Malena, comes this dark and mysterious thriller with top-notch performances by Gérard Depardieu (Buffet Froid, Green Card) and Roman Polanski (The Fearless Vampire Killers, A Generation). Onoff (Depardieu) is a famed author who hasn’t published anything in years and has become a recluse. One rainy night, he is picked up by the police, who find him running across the French countryside in the rain, breathless, without any identification 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 dark, leaky command post to await the arrival of the Inspector (Polanski), who’s ironically a fan of Onoff’s work. Through painstaking interrogatory dialectic, the Inspector delves into Onoff’s mind, and brings the writer to a new and unexpected realization. Music by legendary maestro Ennio Morricone (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The Sicilian Clan).
NEW Audio Commentary by Entertainment Journalist and Author Bryan Reesman
Optional English Subtitles
Dual-Layered BD50 Disc
Trailers
- Giuseppe Tornatore - Director
- Gérard Depardieu - Actor
- Roman Polanski - Actor
- Sergio Rubini - Actor
- Nicola Di Pinto - Actor
- Tano Cimarosa - Actor
- Paolo Lombardi - Actor
- Maria Rosa Spagnolo - Actor
- Alberto Sironi - Actor
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