DVD & Blu-ray: A PURE FORMALITY (1994) Starring Gerard Depardieu and Roman Polanski

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Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)

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Product Description: 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).

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Director: Giuseppe Tornatore

Starring: Gérard Depardieu, Roman Polanski, Sergio Rubini

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Runtime: 108 min

Rating: PG-13 for brief shocking violence and momentary language

Language: English

Studio: Kino Lorber

Home Video Release Date: March 17, 2020