![]() Joan Marcus (L-R): Jim True-Frost, Cora Vander Broek, Ian Barford, and Sally Murphy in Linda Vista. A Loser Looks for Love in Tracy Letts’ Latest Play ![]() The net effect is a talky docudrama without Ozon’s usual flourishes, but it’s fairly solid stuff. It’s also very painstaking, and the characters go about their mission in very French-y ways, rarely breaking down or flying into rages. The movie is careful to separate homosexuality from pedophilia (sexuality is not a perversion, thank you). (While not denying what he did, the twisted holy man thinks people should feel sorry for what his sickness has done to him and how it’s ruined his life-he doesn’t seem to realize what it’s done to his victims.) Two other victims join the battle and come across a brick wall in the form of the church’s blind distortions and excuses, not to mention the priest’s unwavering self-pity. Noted French director François Ozon tackles the topic of pedophilia in the church with By the Grace of God, the fact-based story of a man (played by Melvil Poupaud) who’s determined to make a priest accountable for having molested him when he was a child. Jean-Claude Moireau Melvil Poupaud (R) in By the Grace of God.
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