The Suspended Vocation (1978)
- Original title
- La Vocation suspendue
- Directed by
- Raúl Ruiz
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Rating
- 6.6 of 10 from 7 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A man becomes entangled with a secretive Catholic order that seems to exist outside of normal time and space. The film follows his confusing experiences within a world of shifting identities and bizarre rituals.
fragmenteddisorientingcerebralabsurdslow-pacedunsettlingambiguoussurreal
What happens
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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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