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