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By the Grace of God: Directed by François Ozon. With Melvil Poupaud, Denis Ménochet, Swann Arlaud, Éric Caravaca. Three men, abused by the same priest during their childhood, engage in a fight for justice that will expose their personal experiences and question their life with their wife, family, and colleagues.
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- Crime, Drama
- François Ozon
- 2019-10-18
Nov 15, 2020 · It is an award-winning film which chooses to describe itself as a fiction based on known facts. Nevertheless, in telling the story of a paedophile Catholic priest, Father Bernard Preynat (Bernard Verley) and of the churchman, Cardinal Barbarin (François Marthouret) accused of failing to act on what he knew, the film does not hesitate to use ...
- Mansel Stimpson
his latest film, By the Grace of God, is a departure from style. It is an intimate look at ‘the most France’ (The Guardian), made with deliberate assurance and a quiet sense of indignation. The -aged men showing their emotions and “masculine fragility”’ – The Guardian.
Oct 17, 2019 · In “By the Grace of God” François Ozon, one of France’s most brazen and talente d directors, tells a story of a group of men in Lyon, all childhood victims of a pedophile priest. These ...
- François Ozon
The take. In Lyon, the second biggest city in France after Paris, a man confronts the church about a prominent priest who sexually assaulted him and his friends when they were young. The man, being religious, wanted to keep the issue within the church. He only asked that the pedophile’s priesthood be revoked so that he doesn’t assault more ...
- Éric Caravaca
- François Ozon
Feb 8, 2019 · Unveiled in competition at the 69 th Berlinale, François Ozon ’s By the Grace of God [+. ] is an important, mature and precise fiction feature on the thorny subject of priests and paedophilia, in which all of Ozon’s filmmaking talents come together to bring the shadows of the past to light. Both a portrait-based and investigative film, By ...
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May 16, 2019 · Reviews, andre crous. Credit: Berlin Film Festival. By André Crous. Religion is theatre, so it comes as little surprise that the opening act of François Ozon’s By the Grace of God, a film dealing with a real-life church abuse scandal in the French city of Lyon, is mostly about people in robes speaking their lines but ultimately just playing ...
