If you loved Mesrine: Public Enemy #1, try A Pure Formality

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Mesrine: Public Enemy #1

2008 · dir. Jean-François Richet

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Theyboth carry the foreign gem mood tag, and they sit in Crime / Drama / Thriller territory. If that's the register that drew you to Mesrine: Public Enemy #1, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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Night. Rain slicking the cobblestones. A scream. Famous novelist Onoff, fugitive from fame, brought in for questioning. An isolated police station, somewhere out of time. A long night of interrogation, a dead body, and a truth stranger than fiction. Tornatore's Euro-thriller anticipates the puzzle-box era.

If you loved Mesrine: Public Enemy #1, try A Pure Formality

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If you loved Mesrine: Public Enemy #1, try A Pure Formality

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A Pure Formality

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