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Jul 27, 1978 · The Suspended Vocation: Directed by Raúl Ruiz. With Didier Flamand, Pascal Bonitzer, Gabriel Gascon, Maurice Bénichou. Divergent factions within the Catholic Church are plagued by internal ideological quarrels.
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- Drama
- Raúl Ruiz
- 1978-07-27
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]
Overview. 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. Ruiz's intention was to reflect the ideological arguments that plagued Latin American left-wing political parties. Raúl Ruiz.
La Vocation Suspendue plot. An intentionally confusing combination of two earlier fictional attempts (a black and white version in 1942 and a color version in 1962) to film a story about the struggle between different doctrines within the Catholic Church. The final message is just as confusing as the structure.
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- Didier Flamand, Pascal Bonitzer, Edith Scob
- Raoul Ruiz
Feb 14, 2019 · Raoul Ruiz – La vocation suspendue AKA The Suspended Vocation (1978) admin February 14, 2019. 0 0. “Ostensibly a faithful adaptation of Pierre Klossowski’s autobiographical novel about the struggle between rival doctrinal factions with the Catholic Church, THE SUSPENDED VOCATION illustrates Ruiz’s belief that institutions, in order to ...
Released in United States 1977. Released in United States December 1989. Shown at Public Theater in New York City December 1-7, 1989. This film was part of a 1990 series of eight Raul Ruiz films on tour of the USA organized by the International Film Circuit and the British Film Institute.
The Suspended Vocation is a film directed by Raoul Ruiz with Didier Flamand, Gabriel Gascon, Pascal Bonitzer, Maurice Bénichou .... Year: 1978. Original title: La Vocation suspendue.