Movie Review.

Movie Review

I went to The International Film Festival and I saw By the Grace Of God on October 23, 2019 at 8:30pm. This movie is a French-Belgian drama film. The language of this movie is French. It was produced by Nicolas Altmayer. This movie is about a guy who is called Alexander, he is married with children, but he was raped by a predatory Father Bernard Preynat. He did not forget anything happened when he was a child. When he realized that the pastor still working with children, he decided to talk to the pastor and made him accept that he raped him when he was a child. He decided to tell his story and by the time he said everything happened, he discovered that he was not the only child. When the other children saw the new about the pastor that also raped them, they decided to tell the truth and there were many children as alexander.

I personally did not like the end because I expected more about the end. And I did not like the fact that the Church knew what happened with all those children and they did not do anything for all those children. I believed that there is not excused to rape anyone and especially children. Moreover, I expected that the church sends The Father Bernard Preynat to jail.

During this movie, we see how journalists faced with a coverup by the Catholic archdiocese of Boston, because they did not want to show what is really happening in the Church.

On the whole, I wanted the Father Bernard to go to jail and pays for everything he did to those children. However, at the end of the movie, Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, the archbishop of Lyon, received a six-month suspended prison sentence because he reported the abuses.