By the Grace of God (French: Grâce à Dieu) is a 2019 French-Belgian drama film directed by François Ozon.

A flourishing banking executive, husband of a loving wife and father of five children, he is a practicing Catholic, just like his family.

One day, after a conversation with a former scout comrade like him, he remembers the sexual abuse he suffered from a pedophile priest, Father Bernard Preynat.

Régine Maire organizes a brief confrontation between Alexandre and Father Preynat, which ends with an almost surreal common prayer.

Under increasing pressure and urged to act by Régine Maire, Cardinal Philippe Barbarin organizes a press conference.

The website's critics consensus reads: "Patient in its approach yet stirring in its conviction, By the Grace of God draws soberly gripping cinema from real-life horror.

[9] Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian wrote "Ozon has made a decent and valuable film, though it often seems like the drama part of a docudrama: some of the scenes feel like respectful re-enactments that could have gone into a documentary".

He wrote "By the Grace of God begins to spin its wheels, with unnecessary scenes that give color to the events, when we're more interested in the grand movements".

[16] On 4 July 2019, an ecclesiastical tribunal of the Archdiocese of Lyon announced it had determined that Preynat was "guilty of criminal acts of a sexual character on minors younger than 16" and applied its maximum penalty by defrocking him.