La syndicaliste

2022 [FRENCH]

Action / Drama / Thriller

4
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 80% · 41 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 67%
IMDb Rating 6.6/10 10 2165 2.2K

based on novel or book investigation nuclear power plant based on true story union threat

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Plot summary

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.

Director

Jean-Paul Salomé Photo
Jean-Paul Salomé

Top cast

François-Xavier Demaison Photo
François-Xavier Demaison as Jean-Pierre Bachmann
Isabelle Huppert Photo
Isabelle Huppert as Maureen Kearney
Yvan Attal Photo
Yvan Attal as Luc Oursel
Marina Foïs Photo
Marina Foïs as Anne Lauvergeon
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by CinemaSerf 6 / 10

Isabelle Huppert is quite impressive here as the

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.
Reviewed by Lincsobserver 7 / 10

Complex but interesting

This film tells the complex story of political and corporate machinations in the French nuclear industry, along with the central character's lengthy legal battle to clear her name of charges of fabricating evidence, following a personal attack upon her. At times it feels as if the film is struggling to accommodate both stories in a single narrative - the details over the secret deal with the Chinese get a bit lost once Kearney's personal story (which has echoes of the British PO scandal) takes over. Isabelle Huppert is a fine actress, who presents Kearney as someone to admire rather than to like. I felt as if I might have got more out of the film if I had known more about either the legal case, or the French nuclear industry, but it is an interesting, compelling story about the struggles of an individual against powerful unsympathetic officialdom.
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