Film about clerical child abuse opens in French cinemas

By the Grace of God released as judges prepare to deliver verdict in first trial related to scandal

It was filmed in secrecy, certain scenes were so sensitive they had to be shot abroad and two legal cases were brought this week to try to ban it from French cinemas.

But By the Grace of God, the film by the acclaimed French director François Ozon which took the Silver Bear jury prize at the Berlin film festival last weekend, has finally opened in French cinemas this week amid controversy surrounding the country’s biggest church abuse scandal.

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