Name: The Suspended Vocation
Director: Raoul Ruiz
Released: 1978
Duration: 1 h 36 min
Cast: Gabriel Gascon, Maurice Bénichou, Didier Flamand, Pascal Bonitzer

Gabriel Gascon

Maurice Bénichou

Didier Flamand

Pascal Bonitzer

Divergent factions within the Catholic Church are plagued by internal ideological quarrels.

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The Suspended Vocation

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Jean Narboni

Jean Rougeul

Christian Broutin

Bruno Guillain

Jean Reno

Two narrators, one seen and one unseen, discuss possible connections between a series of paintings. The on-screen narrator walks through three-dimensional reproductions of each painting, featuring real people, sometimes moving, in an effort to explain the series&#x27; significance.

The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting

Français

VF - SD

VF - HD

Hippolyte Girardot

Emmanuelle Devos

Christine Pascal

Bernard Le Coq

Yvan Attal

Sandrine Kiberlain

André Engel

Elisabeth Macocco

Ariel Brenner leaves his family to go to Israel and become a Mossad agent. Four years later, his dream comes true: he is posted to one of the toughest secret service units. Skilled in every intelligence technique, he has especially mastered the Mossad&#x27;s favorite weapon : manipulation. He is now assigned his first missions.

France, Generation 90

Les Patriotes

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english

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Annie Girardot

Daniel Auteuil

Juliette Binoche

Daniel Duval

Georges m&egrave;ne une paisible vie de famille dans une petite maison &agrave; Paris jusqu&rsquo;au jour o&ugrave; il re&ccedil;oit des vid&eacute;os anonymes montrant sa maison film&eacute;e de la rue. Alors que le contenu de ces vid&eacute;os devient de plus en plus personnel, la police refuse son aide &agrave; Georges et sa famille.

Caché

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Delphine Seyrig

Vernon Dobtcheff

Claude Mann

Michael Lonsdale

Françoise Lebrun

Jean-Claude Biette

Mathieu Carrière

Satasinh Manila

Marguerite Duras

Benoît Jacquot

Anne-Marie Stretter, wife of a French diplomat, lives in 1930s India. She takes many lovers as systems of oppression decay around her.

India Song

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Xavier Beauvois

Bulle Ogier

Emmanuel Salinger

Jean Douchet

Chiara Mastroianni

Roschdy Zem

Cédric Kahn

Benoit has planned out his life. Unfortunately he has forgotten the military duty. After he is called to duty he tries everything to get around. The story gets even worse as he is told by a military doctor that he is HIV positive.

Don't Forget You're Going to Die

Mathieu Amalric

Narda Blanchet

Pierrette Pompon-Bailhache

Alexandre Tcherkassoff

Thamar Tarassachvili

Alexandra Liebermann

A noble family of France maintains dignity despite the onslaught of modernism and non-white immigrants.

La Chasse aux papillons

Jean Baudrillard

A cin&eacute;ma v&eacute;rit&eacute; documentary about the elections in Paris which reflexively inverts in on itself.

Of Great Events and Ordinary People

Grégoire Colin

Jean-Claude Dreyfus

László Szabó

Dinara Droukarova

A boy hears that his father may still be alive and sets out to find him, meeting many of his father&#x27;s acquaintances and friends along the way and making some of his own.

Le fils de Gascogne

Eva Simonet

Silke Humel

Frank Lesne

Marie-Christine Poisot	

Hugo Santiago

Geneviève Such

A charming tale of murder, perversity and narrative echoes told through shots of barking dogs and a La jet&eacute;e-like series of stills.

Dog's Dialogue

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Arielle Dombasle

Emmanuelle Béart

John Malkovich

Edith Scob

Christian Vadim

Vincent Perez

Elsa Zylberstein

Pascal Greggory

Marcello Mazzarella

Marie-France Pisier

Catherine Deneuve

Raoul Ruiz à propos de son film Le Temps retrouvé

Le Cercle

Lettre de cinéaste Raoul Ruiz

Cinéma cinémas

Catherine Deneuve en génériques

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Cinéma cinémas 06/04/1983 : Lettre de cinéaste Raoul Ruiz

A lush, elegant epic taking us on a time-swirling trip down the infinitely complex labyrinth that is Marcel Proust&#x27;s memory lane.

Time Regained

Françoise Arnoul

Daniel Gélin

Sergio Hernández

Huguette Faget

Carla Cristi

Carlos Solanos

Chilean exiles in Paris discuss the problems facing them in the early years of the Pinochet regime. They kidnap and attempt to reeducate a touring singer from their homeland.

Dialogues of Exiles

Diálogos de exiliados

Spanish

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Anne Alvaro

Jean-Bernard Guillard

Jean Badin

Franck Oger

Claude Derepp

Clarisse Daull

A lush, baroque adaptation of Jean Racine&#x27;s 1670 tragedy about a Roman emperor who bends to popular will and declines to marry the Palestinian queen he loves.

Raoul Ruiz

La Cinémathèque française

Bérénice

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Le cinéma des cinéastes

Le cinéma des cinéastes 02/05/1979 : Raul Ruiz à propos entre autres de L'Hypothèse du tableau volé

Shenda Román

Nelson Villagra

Luis Alarcón

Jaime Vadell

Delfina Guzmán

Fernando Colina

The drunken nights of several listless chancers in Chile&#x27;s capital city build inexorably to violence.

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Three Sad Tigers

Tres Tristes Tigres

Philippe Deplanche

Nadège Clair

Lisa Lyon

Frank Oger

François Ede

A drunken sailor recounts the surrealistic odyssey of his life story to a murderous student.

Three Crowns of the Sailor

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Jessica Forde

Jean-Marie Boëglin

The Narrator, an Arab immigrant about 35 years, H., is in an old cinema projectionist. One day, attracted by music, he looks through the window and sees what fascinates him: the dancer in the film catches his eye.

The Blind Owl

Beatriz Lapido

Rodrigo Ureta

Mónica Díaz

Manuel Aranguiz

Ruiz deconstructs, satirizes and politicizes a rich-boy/poor-girl romance bestseller which had been dubbed &#x27;the Chilean &quot;Love Story&quot;&#x27;.

Palomita Blanca

Louis Castel

Christian Rist

Camila Mora-Scheihing

Catherine Oudin

Jean-Loup Rivière

Festival of Avignon, 1983. Adam, an unemployed actor, wanders between fiction and reality in search of himself.&nbsp;

In this fiction with a surrealist undertone, Raoul Ruiz turns a commissioned work about &quot;his vision of the Avignon Festival&quot; into a personal and powerful reflection on theatre.

The Real Presence

La présence réelle

Hugues Quester

Melvil Poupaud

A surreal odyssey in which a melancholic maidservant crosses paths with a homicidal little boy, travels to a tiny island and encounters a man with multiple personalities.

City of Pirates

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Léa Seydoux

Clotilde Hesme

Ricardo Pereira

Maria João Bastos

José Afonso Pimentel

Adriano Luz

Follows a jealous countess, a wealthy businessman, and a young orphaned boy across Portugal, France, Italy and Brazil where they connect with a variety of mysterious individuals.

Mysteries of Lisbon

Mistérios de Lisboa

Marisa Paredes

Feodor Atkine

Anna Galiena

Guillaume de Tonquédec

Marcello Mastroianni

Take a walk into the dreamlike world of filmmaker Raul Ruiz as he takes us to Paris for a twisting ride. Four strangely symmetrical stories unfold involving love, lust, crime, and time.

Three Lives and Only One Death

Trois Vies et Une Seule Mort

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Michel Fortin

Patrick Dewaere

France Dougnac

Jean Bouise

In the small village of Trincamp, Fran&ccedil;ois Perrin gets kicked off the soccer team and asked to leave his work in the factory. He is put in jail for a rape he didn&#x27;t commit and subsequently pardoned. He is hired in an important game and by scoring the winning goal suddenly becomes a big hero. However he has not forgotten his past or how the leading citizens used to scorn him. So Perrin uses his new won fame to pave the way for revenge.

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