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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
A thoughtful, fast-paced, and immaculately acted procedural that unfolds with the urgency of a newspaper deadline, By the Grace of God zips through the facts of this horrid case, while also shaping them into a lens through which to examine the uneasy relationships between mercy and justice — between faith and the flawed institution that exists to preserve it.
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
Oct 25, 2019 · Like Spotlight, By the Grace of God shares DNA with a police procedural. The film’s primary focus, however, is the survivors and the unevenly corrosive effects of post-traumatic stress.
- Melvil Poupaud, Denis Ménochet, Swann Arlaud
- François Ozon
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 ...
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Oct 31, 2019 · Francois Ozon’s By the Grace of God wastes no time striking at the wound of its tough subject matter.After brief credits, we’re introduced to Alexandre, a successful banker and family man, writing a letter to Cardinal Barbarin, opening up about sexual abuse he suffered as a child at the hands of Father Preynat.
