La Syndicaliste

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Overview : The true story of the Irish national Maureen Kearney- head tradeunion representative-turned-whistleblower of a French multinational nuclear powerhouse. After denouncing top-secret deals that shook the sector, Kearney’s life is suddenly turned upside-down when she is violently assaulted in her own house.
Budget : Na
language : fr
Runtime : 122 min
Release Date : 2023-03-01
Imdb ID : tt16987062
Status : Released

Cast

Isabelle Huppert
Maureen Kearney

Grégory Gadebois
Gilles Hugo

Marina Foïs
Anne Lauvergeon

Alexandra Maria Lara
Julie Depret

Pierre Deladonchamps
Chief Warrant Officer Nicolas Brémont

François-Xavier Demaison
Jean-Pierre Bachmann

Gilles Cohen
Maître Hervé Témime

Yvan Attal
Luc Oursel

Aloïse Sauvage
Captain Chambard

Geno Lechner
Véronique

Yves Heck
Doctor Medical-judicial unit

Sébastien Corona
President of the Commission

Clément Giren
Areva Executive

Yassine Douani
CFDT colleague

Andréa Bescond
President Tribunal

Antoine Basler
Gendarme (The Unknown)

Radostina Rogliano
Woman in courtroom audience at both trials

Eszter Popp
Hungarian worker

François Pérache
Maître Duchesne

Christophe Paou
Arnaud Montebourg

Mara Taquin
Fiona Hugo

Christian Hecq
Tirésias

François Loriquet
Prosecutor

Saadia Bentaïeb
Madame Tirésias

Olivier Loustau
François

Ambroise Sabbagh
Investigator

Omar Salim
Investigator

Anne-Lise Kedvès
Maria, cleaning lady

Éric Frey
MRI Doctor hospital

Alex Lajoie
Hospital on-call doctor

Nadine Schwitter
Hungarian interpreter

Kinga Schmidt
Hungarian worker

Marcus Jakovljevic
Kovacs

Grégoire Roqueplo
Areva Executive

Hervé Dandrieux
CFDT colleague

Sara Ginac
Areva colleague

Bernard Gabay
Henri Proglio

Candide Sanchez
Hospital gendarme

Nicolas Martinez
Hospital gendarme

Nicolas Merle
Gendarme Protect

Rebecca Finet
Boss of roadside restaurant

Benjamin Gaitet
Fireman at the shed

Caroline Michel-Aguirre
Journalist at the Hyatt

Joy Ezan
Areva Executive

Felix Bruneau

Cedric Cirotteau
Gendarme (uncredited)

Niko Ravel
Helmut Müller (uncredited)

Xavier Desmoutiers
Gendarme (uncredited)

Julien Desjardins
Bodyguard (uncredited)

Teddy Candela
Private chauffeur (uncredited)

Joanna Gagueche
Party girl (uncredited)

Christian Skibinski
Visitor (uncredited)

Jeremy Zocca
Lutetia Reception Host (uncredited)

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Reviews

Geronimo1967
Isabelle Huppert is quite impressive here as the human resources executive Maureen Kearney. Determined to work to secure decent working conditions for tens of thousands of staff working for the French Nuclear power enterprise AREVA. Her work doesn't exactly make her popular, but when her CEO ally Anne Lauvergeon (Marina Foïs) is forced out by political manoeuvring at the Élysée Palace she is faced with a much more hostile management. Pretty soon she fears that she is becoming the victim of a conspiracy and that comes to an head when her husband (Grégory Gadebois) and the police are summoned to their home where she has been tied to a chair and brutally assaulted. It's at this point that the police investigation takes rather a surreal turn, when investigating officer Brémont (Pierre Delasonchamps) starts to suspect she made it all up - and she is duly tried for that crime... To be honest, this isn't as good a film as it could have been. It's a bit too wordy and for me, anyway, way too much time is spent on the preamble, establishing her credentials, and not enough time putting the meat on the bones of this most curious of conspiratorial narratives: the trading of technologies between the French and Chinese companies that may have undermined their own industry and put many jobs, if not national energy security, at risk. The police investigation and the rather rushed developments thereafter that affected this this lady for five years afterwards are also rather undercooked. It's a pretty savage indictment of the French justice system, the policing procedures and it makes you realise that when the law is against you, you need a very good lawyer - which she certainly did not have - if you are to have any chance of survival in the court room! Certainly worth a watch, though - just a shame it didnt dig deeper.