La Vocation suspendue

With friendly contacts to the film aficionados of the "Cahiers du Cinema", Ruiz had arrived professionally in Paris. In addition to Cahiers editor Pascal Bonitzer in a leading role, other authors from the magazine act in this film adaptation of Pierre Klossowski's autobiographical, highly enigmatic debut novel, which Ruiz discovered by chance in a bookstore. The script, written together with Klossowski, about a Dominican monk who is struggling with more than just skepticism intertwines various levels of time and fiction in a manner that is as agile as it is opaque. Sacha Vierny's camera is also fantastically elegant in the first of his collaborations with Ruiz. (Silvia Hallensleben)

All retrospective films that will be shown at the Filmmuseum after the Viennale - from 1.11. - can of course also be reserved as usual at filmmuseum.at or by calling 01/533 70 54 and purchased at the box office of the Austrian Film Museum. The prices of the Austrian Film Museum apply.

Raúl Ruiz: TRES TRISTES TIGRES (1968), EL REALISMO SOCIALISTA (1973), DIALOGUES OF EXILES (1975), BÉRÉNICE (1983), POINT DE FUITE (1984), MÉMOIRE DES APPARENCES (1986), L’OEIL QUI MENT (1992), FADO MAJEUR ET MINEUR (1994), TROIS VIES ET UNE SEULE MORT (1996), GÉNÉALOGIES D’UN CRIME (1997), COMÉDIE DE L’INNOCENCE (2000), KLIMT (2006), MISTÉRIOS DE LISBOA (2010)