La Syndicaliste

2023 2h 2m FR

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6.6

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80%

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METACRITIC

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6.6

IMDB

★6.6TMDB · 189🍅80%Rotten Tomatoes●50Metacritic★6.6IMDB · 1,882

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Synopsis

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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.

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

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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

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Jean-Paul Salomé
Writers: Fadette Drouard, Jean-Paul Salomé
Languages: Hungarian, German, French, English
Countries: Germany, France

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1 / 8

ERA

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Released 3 years ago.

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2 / 8

WORLD

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Dialogue crosses 4 languages: Hungarian, German, French, English.

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3 / 8

WORLD

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International production across 2 countries: Germany, France.

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4 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Jean-Paul Salomé, shot by Julien Hirsch. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Bruno Coulais. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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6 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Valérie Deseine shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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7 / 8

CAST

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Isabelle Huppert and Grégory Gadebois and Marina Foïs carry the top of the cast.

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8 / 8

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt16987062 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Jean-Paul Salomé directs. Julien Hirsch behind the camera. Bruno Coulais scores. Valérie Deseine cuts. Produced in Germany, France. Dialogue in Hungarian, German, French, English.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Released 3 years ago.
2Dialogue crosses 4 languages: Hungarian, German, French, English.
3International production across 2 countries: Germany, France.
4Directed by Jean-Paul Salomé, shot by Julien Hirsch. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
5Original score by Bruno Coulais. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
6Editor Valérie Deseine shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
7Isabelle Huppert and Grégory Gadebois and Marina Foïs carry the top of the cast.
8IMDB entry: tt16987062 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
9Classified under 8 themes, including "based on novel or book", "investigation", "nuclear power plant", "based on true story".

The technical file

Cinematography: Julien Hirsch
Original score: Bruno Coulais
Editing: Valérie Deseine
Production design: Françoise Dupertuis
Costume design: Marité Coutard
Makeup / hair: Dolores Sánchez
VFX supervisor: Thibaut Granier
Sound: Thomas Wargny Drieghe
Stunt coordinator: Albert Goldberg
Runtime: 122 min · 2h 2m
Status: Released
Box office: $3,900,000
Original language: FR
IMDB: La Syndicaliste (2023)
Rotten Tomatoes: 80% 🍅 Fresh
Metacritic: 50/100
IMDB rating: 6.6/10 · 1,882 votes

Awards

1 nomination total

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What people are saying

CinemaSerf2023-07-22
★ 6/10
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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