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The Suspended Vocation

Original title: La vocation suspendue
  • 19781978
  • 1h 30m
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6.6/10
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The Suspended Vocation (1978)
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Divergent factions within the Catholic Church are plagued by internal ideological quarrels.Divergent factions within the Catholic Church are plagued by internal ideological quarrels.Divergent factions within the Catholic Church are plagued by internal ideological quarrels.
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    • Raúl Ruiz
    • Pierre Klossowski(novel)
    • Raúl Ruiz
  • Stars
    • Didier Flamand
    • Pascal Bonitzer
    • Gabriel Gascon
    • Raúl Ruiz
    • Pierre Klossowski(novel)
    • Raúl Ruiz
  • Stars
    • Didier Flamand
    • Pascal Bonitzer
    • Gabriel Gascon
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    • 4User reviews
    • 4Critic reviews
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    • Jérôme #1
    Pascal Bonitzer
    Pascal Bonitzer
    • Jérôme #2
    Gabriel Gascon
    Gabriel Gascon
    • Le père-confesseur
    Maurice Bénichou
    Maurice Bénichou
    • Le membre de la Dévotion #1
    François Simon
    • La montagne
    Pascal Kané
    • Le membre de la Dévotion #2
    Edith Scob
    Edith Scob
    • Angélique #1
    Frédérique Meininger
    Frédérique Meininger
    • Mère Angélique #2
    Alexandre Tamar
    • Le membre de la Dévotion #3
    Jean Badin
    • L'ami
    Françoise Vercruyssen
    • La femme
    Marcel Imhoff
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    Jean Lescot
    Jean Lescot
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    Daniel Isoppo
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    Gérard Berner
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    Éric Burnelli
    • Le frère peintre
    Isidro Romero
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    difficult, cerebral and oblique film dealing with Catholic issues
    I found "La Vocation suspendue"/Suspended Vocation (1978), the earliest feature from Raoul Ruiz that I've seen thus far, very, very difficult and at times completely incomprehensible -- I really think one has to have some background in or knowledge of Catholicism to fully appreciate it, and clearly though the visual aspects of the film are important, the religious themes are at the heart of it; it is unquestionably a film about something, a film that is dealing intellectually with a subject, but in an oblique enough way that if you start out more or less at ground zero (as I did) it will be hard to take anything away. The black and white photography elements (courtesy of one of the world's greatest cinematographers, Sacha Vierny, in his first collaboration with Ruiz) were quite striking though, and at times it gave off a very Bressonian feel.

    This was Ruiz' second French feature and the first of two films based on novels by Pierre Klossowski, the other being "Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting." Probably worth a 6/10 for interest, and I suspect that I'll get more out of it on a second viewing after doing some homework. It appears on an indispensable Blaq Out 2-disc set with the much more accessible and entertaining "Hypothesis" and "Three Crowns of the Sailor." DVD rental
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      • July 27, 1978 (France)
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