Ozon reveals how the victims’ stories unlocked his own painful memoryFor most film directors, the nail-biting action unfolds on screen. Without morphing into documentary, the film presents the facts of the most serious scandal to hit the Catholic church in France. The words of Preynat, Barbarin and a third person, the diocese’s volunteer psychologist Régine Maire, are taken verbatim from what they told the press and legal statements, he says. He says he did not meet Barbarin, Preynat and Maire and has no wish to. Ozon insists his film is not an attack on Catholics but on the “church as an institution”.

Source: The Guardian October 13, 2019 09:00 UTC