If you loved The Red Violin, try A Pure Formality

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

What they share

Theyboth carry the foreign gem mood tag, and they sit in Drama / Mystery / Thriller territory. If that's the register that drew you to The Red Violin, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What A Pure Formality is

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.

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