La Syndicaliste (2023)

★ 6.7 2h 2m 179 votes IMDb

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.

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Cast

Isabelle Huppert
Isabelle Huppert as Maureen Kearney Age 73 · Parc Montsouris, Paris, France Isabelle Anne Madeleine Huppert (born 16 March 1953) is a French actress. Described as "one of the best actresses in the world", she is known for her portrayals of cold and disdainful characters devoi...
Grégory Gadebois
Grégory Gadebois as Gilles Hugo Age 49 · Gruchet-le-Valasse, Seine-Maritime, France Grégory Gadebois (born 24 July 1976) is a French actor. Before his career as an actor begin, he worked as a mover. He studied at the CNSAD in the class of Catherine Hiegel and Dominique Valadié. He...
Marina Foïs
Marina Foïs as Anne Lauvergeon Age 56 · Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France Marina Sylvie Foïs (born 21 January 1970) is a French actress. Born in Boulogne-Billancourt in the department of Hauts-de-Seine in a family from Russian, Jewish Egyptian, German and Italian ancestry,...
Alexandra Maria Lara
Alexandra Maria Lara as Julie Depret Age 47 · Bucharest, Romania Alexandra Maria Lara (born 12 November 1978) is a Romanian-German actress who has appeared in Downfall (2004), Control (2007), Youth Without Youth (2007), The Reader (2008), Rush (2013), and Geostorm...
Pierre Deladonchamps
Pierre Deladonchamps as Chief Warrant Officer Nicolas Brémont Age 47 · Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France Pierre Deladonchamps was born on June 1, 1978 in Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France. He is known for starring in the thriller film Stranger by the Lake (2013), for which he won the César Award for Most...
François-Xavier Demaison
François-Xavier Demaison as Jean-Pierre Bachmann Age 52 · Asnières-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France François-Xavier Demaison (born 22 September 1973) is a French actor and humorist. Demaison was born in Asnières-sur-Seine. Both his parents were lawyers. He studied theater but dropped out to focus o...

Audience Reviews

CinemaSerf 6/10 Jul 22, 2023
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.

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