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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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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