A Pure Formality

A Pure Formality Italian Una Pura Formalit is a 1994 ItalianFrench drama thriller film cowritten and directed by Giuseppe Tornatore. It stars Grard Depardieu as a reclusive writer and Roman Polanski as a police detective.

A Pure Formality was nominated for a Golden Palm at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival. It also received a David di Donatello for Best Production Design Andrea Crisanti.Several films are inspired by A Pure Formality s idea 1994 of the mystery of the living versus the dead. The bestcitation needed example is The Sixth Sense 1999 by M. Night Shyamalan, another is The Others 2001 from Alejandro Amenbar. ........

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