Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. —Henry Fielding

30 November 2023

By the Grace of God (2018)


This is a very, very strange Ozon film, mostly because it’s a very conventional movie. I just don’t expect such things from Ozon. Anyway, Grâce à Dieu is fine. But I guess it was just all a little too much about Catholicism and the god for me. I don’t really care about those things. And it’s not a surprise to me in the year of our lord 2018 that the Catholic Church covered up child sexual abuse, that very few older people care about that at all and want to hold them accountable, and that the government is happy to allow all of this. But it sure is odd subject matter for Ozon. Still this film is buoyed by a truly remarkable performance by Swann Arlaud. He is so good in this.

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