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The Sitting Duck

La syndicaliste

2022

Jean-Paul Salomé

Isabelle Huppert, Alexandra Maria Lara, Benoît Magimel, Marina Foïs ...

6.2

555

Thriller. Drama La syndicaliste is the true story of Maureen Kearney, the head union representative of a French multinational nuclear powerhouse. She became a whistleblower, denouncing top-secret deals that shook the French nuclear sector. Alone against the world, she fought government ministers and industry leaders, tooth and nail to bring the scandal to light and to defend more than 50,000 jobs.. Her life was turned upside down when she was violently assaulted in her own home. [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Stephanie Bunbury Deadline	"Huppert (...) embodies this unassuming heroism so effectively that you hardly notice that a much bigger story has been allowed to become a blur"
		Kevin Maher The Times	"[Huppert] is a genuinely singular talent in modern European cinema, and her ability to take a role like this and infuse it with stillness and subterranean complexities is nothing less than mesmerising (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Lee Marshall Screendaily	"A strong enough story and a lead actress as good as Isabelle Huppert"
		Wendy Ide The Guardian	"Crass adaptation of a shocking true story (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Guy Lodge Variety	"[It] sacrifices discomfort and idiosyncrasy as a character study to more plainly valorize a done-wrong woman of the people. But it's at least rousing on those terms"
		Alice Saville Time Out	"Isabelle Huppert keeps this patchy potboiler bubbling as a real-life whistleblower (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Glenn Kenny rogerebert.com	"I know it’s not a thing, especially nowadays apparently, to ask that movies be longer, but 'La Syndicaliste' might have benefitted from a bit more expansiveness (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"
		Charlotte O'Sullivan London Evening Standard	"Both the book and the film induce shivers by exposing the gross misogyny of so-called respectable establishment figures (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Ethan Vestby The Film Stage	"Yes, its rather reserved form may draw some television-movie comparisons, but as a complicated story told succinctly and with nary a trace of sentimentality, it’s an admirable film"
		Cath Clarke The Guardian	"A political thriller that tells the story matter-of-factly, and is perhaps a little lacking in the pace department. But Isabelle Huppert carries it along with a performance every bit as gripping as you'd expect (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Olga Artemyeva Screen Anarchy	"It's not exactly subtle about what it wants to say, but its forwardness actually plays into the narrative quite effectively"
		Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"Sometimes the best reason to watch a movie is because Isabelle Huppert is in it"
		Fabien Lemercier Cineuropa	"Well-paced and impressively constructed (...) injecting just enough nuance for the movie to appeal to the wider public as a fascinating work, and to encourage crucial social reflection"

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