The Suspended Vocation
1978 film
- 1978 (1978)
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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
- 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
- ^ Goddard, Michael (2013). The Cinema of Raúl Ruiz: Impossible Cartographies, Wallflower Press, pp. 39-45
External links
- The Suspended Vocation at IMDb
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Films directed by Raúl Ruiz
- La maleta
- Le retour
- El tango del viudo
- Three Sad Tigers
- La catanaria
- Militarismo y tortura
- ¡Qué hacer!
- The Penal Colony
- Ahora te vamos a llamar hermano
- Nadie dijo nada
- Los minuteros
- Poesía popular: La teoría y la práctica
- The Expropriation
- Abastecimiento
- Little White Dove
- El realismo socialista
- Palomita brava
- Dialogues of Exiles
- Sotelo
- Utopia
- Dog's Dialogue
- Les divisions de la nature
- The Suspended Vocation
- Petit manuel d'histoire de France
- Jeux
- De grands événements et de gens ordinaires
- Images de débat
- The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting
- Zig-Zag
- La ville nouvelle
- Fahlstrom
- Musée Dali
- L'image en silence
- Le borgne
- Teletests
- The Territory
- Images de sable
- Ombres chinoises
- Querelle des jardins
- Le petit théâtre
- On Top of the Whale
- Bérénice
- La ville de Paris
- Letter from a Library Lover
- Three Crowns of the Sailor
- City of Pirates
- Voyages d'une main
- Régime sans pain
- Point de fuite
- Manoel's Destinies
- Treasure Island
- La présence réelle
- The Insomniac on the Bridge
- Richard III
- Life Is a Dream
- Dans un miroir
- Mammame
- Brise-glace
- The Blind Owl
- Le professeur Taranne
- Allegoria
- Tous les nuages sont des horloges
- Il pozzo dei pazzi
- Derrière le mur
- Hub
- The Golden Boat
- La novela errante
- Dark at Noon
- Fado, Major and Minor
- Three Lives and Only One Death
- Genealogies of a Crime
- Le film à venir
- Shattered Image
- Time Regained
- Comedy of Innocence
- Love Torn in a Dream
- Savage Souls
- Cofralandes, Chilean Rhapsody
- That Day
- A Place Among the Living
- Vertigo of the Blank Page
- Days in the Country
- The Lost Domain
- Klimt
- La Recta Provincia
- Litoral
- Nucingen House
- A Closed Book
- Mysteries of Lisbon
- Night Across the Street
- Lines of Wellington
- The Tango of the Widower and Its Distorting Mirror
- The Wandering Soap Opera
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