The Suspended Vocation
| The Suspended Vocation | |
|---|---|
 Film poster | |
| Directed by | Raúl Ruiz |
| Written by | Raúl Ruiz Pierre Klossowski |
| Starring | Didier Flamand |
| Cinematography | Maurice Perrimond Sacha Vierny |
| Edited by | Valeria Sarmiento |
| Music by | Jorge Arriagada |
| Distributed by | Institut national de l'audiovisuel |
Release date |
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Running time | 90 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
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 monk 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
- Didier Flamand as Jérôme #1
- Pascal Bonitzer as Jérôme #2
- Daniel Gélin as Malagrida
- Édith Scob as Angélique
- Gabriel Gascon as Le père-confesseur
- Geneviève Mnich as Soeur Théophile
- Maurice Bénichou as Le membre de la Dévotion #1
- Pascal Kané as Le membre de la Dévotion #2
- Alexandre Tamar as Le membre de la Dévotion #3
- Jean Badin as L'ami
- Huguette Faget as La vendeuse de statues
- Jean Rougeul as Euthanasien Persienne
- Françoise Vercruyssen as La femme
- Jean Lescot as Le père-maitre #1
- Marcel Imhoff as Le père-maitre #2
- Daniel Isoppo as Le frère convers
- Isidro Romero as Le prieur #1
- Gérard Berner as Le prieur #2
- Éric Burnelli as Le frère peintre
- Jean-Robert Viard as L'évêque (as Jean Robert Viard)
- Paul-Eric Shulmann as L'enfant(as Paul-Eroc Schulman)
- Sylvie Herbert as Soeur Vincent
- Raoul Guillet as Le supérieur
- Jean Frapat as L'abbé noir
References
- ^ Goddard, Michael (2013). The Cinema of Raúl Ruiz: Impossible Cartographies, Wallflower Press, pp. 39-45
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