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

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]

Plot

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

References

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

External links

Films directed by Raúl Ruiz
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