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	1978 (1978)
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 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

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

External links

• The Suspended Vocation at IMDb