VINCENT GALLUCCI He Banished Formality Vincent Gallucci was not one to be bound by the formality of the upper echelon of a big financial firm, his wife, Barbara, said.
When the authorities wrote to him to confirm his temporary exemption from the draft and asking him to complete certain bureaucratic formalities, he replied that he would comply if they would address him with the honorific 'Mr', as they did his white colleagues.
It is a dance of formalities he can no longer bother with, and when he meets Alma (Vicky Krieps), a waitress in the seaside town where he keeps a second home, the seduction that follows feels, more than anything, well rehearsed.
Dispensing with hierarchic formalities, he greeted the crowd as "colleagues".
"It is a ban on any new procedures, any new formalities," he said.
We waited until the man returned, and he completed the formalities with profuse apologies.
Auction houses that provide such guarantees comply with "not much more than formalities," he said.
At one point, uneasy with the formalities, he urged the senators not to call him Mr. President-elect.
Although Mr Putin has often seemed a stickler when it comes to respecting constitutional formalities, he and his advisers have become ever more blatant in their flouting of democracy's true substance.
Oliveira brings a dry, sensual elegance to this tale of hearts confounded by circumstances and silences, and he portrays social formalities as mating rituals for human animals on the verge of brutality.
