The Suspended Vocation

Year: 1978

Runtime: 96 mins

Language: French

Director: Raúl Ruiz

Drama

The film follows Dominican monk Jérôme—played by one actor in colour and another in black‑and‑white—as he meets senior officials of the French Catholic hierarchy. Director Ruiz uses the split visual style to highlight ideological tensions, drawing a parallel to the debates that have divided Latin‑American left‑wing politics.

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