It’s no surprise that François Ozon’s By the Grace of God is being compared to Spotlight, the Oscar-winning film about the uncovering of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church in Boston. Like Spotlight, Ozon’s film re-enacts a high-profile abuse scandal involving numerous victims and failures on the part of the Church hierarchy to deal with them appropriately – this time in the Archdiocese of Lyon. However, there is a crucial difference between this new French picture and its American counterpart. The latter was, in the main, the story of a group of journalists on the trail of a huge scoop. By the Grace of God is focused firmly on the abuse victims.