The Suspended Vocation

The Suspended Vocation (French: La vocation suspendue) is a 1978 French drama film directed by Chilean filmmaker Raúl Ruiz. It is a free adaptation of the perverse theological 1950 novel of the same name by Pierre Klossowski.[1]

The Suspended Vocation
Film poster
Directed byRaúl Ruiz
Written byRaúl Ruiz
Pierre Klossowski
StarringDidier Flamand
CinematographyMaurice Perrimond
Sacha Vierny
Edited byValeria Sarmiento
Music byJorge Arriagada
Distributed byInstitut national de l'audiovisuel
Release date
  • 1978 (1978)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

Plot

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The film centers on a Dominican friar named Jérôme (played by one actor in colour and another actor in black-and-white) and his interactions with various higher-ups within the French Catholic Church.

Cast

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  • Didier Flamand as Jérôme # 1
  • Pascal Bonitzer as Jérôme # 2
  • Daniel Gélin as Malagrida
  • Édith Scob as Angélique
  • Gabriel Gascon as The father-confessor
  • Geneviève Mnich as Sister Théophile
  • Maurice Bénichou as Member of the Devotion # 1
  • Pascal Kané as The member of Devotion # 2
  • Alexandre Tamar as Member of Devotion # 3
  • Jean Badin as L'ami
  • Huguette Faget as The Seller of Statues
  • Jean Rougeul as Euthanasien Persienne
  • Françoise Vercruyssen as The Woman
  • Jean Lescot as The Father-Master # 1
  • Marcel Imhoff as The Father-Master # 2
  • Daniel Isoppo as The lay brother
  • Isidro Romero as The Prior # 1
  • Gérard Berner as The Prior # 2
  • Éric Burnelli as The Painter Brother
  • Jean-Robert Viard as Bishop (as Jean Robert Viard)
  • Paul-Eric Shulmann as Child (as Paul-Eroc Schulman)
  • Sylvie Herbert as Sister Vincent
  • Raoul Guillet as The Superior
  • Jean Frapat as The black abbot

References

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  1. ^ Goddard, Michael (2013). The Cinema of Raúl Ruiz: Impossible Cartographies, Wallflower Press, pp. 39-45
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