New scenes arrived from the forthcoming film “The Sitting Duck,” which will be released in Japan on Friday, October 20.
The film is a social suspense film based on a true story. Maureen Kearney, a representative of the Democratic Trade Union of France (DUTU) at a French nuclear power company with 50,000 employees, blows the whistle on a technology transfer contract with China, but is attacked at her home and mentally assaulted, forced to confess that it was a staged act, and so on. The film depicts his six-year struggle against the authorities and his acquittal.
Directed by Jean-Paul Salomé, the film stars Isabelle Huppert as Maureen, Pierre Deladonchamps as Sergeant Bremont, who suspects Maureen, and Yvan Attal as Ursel, president of a nuclear power company.
Ten new scenes have been released this time. They include a scene of Maureen playing cards with a policeman who is her guard, a scene of Maureen inspecting a nuclear power plant, a scene of Chief Bremont visiting a courtroom, and a scene of confrontation between President Ursel and Maureen. Comments from celebrities who have seen the film have also arrived.
The film is mature from every angle!
The glasses are also a role model with costume and impact,
Her performance goes above and beyond, and the truth of the case is completely unreadable…
The truth of the case is not at all clear…
Jun Fubuki (Actress)
French nuclear company AREVA, well known name in Japan
Maureen Kearney, the head of AREVA’s labor union.
Maureen Carney, the head of Areva’s labor union, is humiliated and assaulted by a group of masked men.
She goes on with her quiet life, despite the fact that some say she may have staged the attack.
But Maureen is a strong person, and she will not be defeated.
What is truly astonishing is that this is a true story.
Hiroshi Kume (freelance announcer)
Isabelle Huppert, no doubt!
There is no doubt in Isabelle Huppert’s work!
Isabelle is a treasure of the contemporary French film and theater world, in whom I have an overwhelming sense of trust!
This “I am Maureen Kearney” was also a sure thing. It was very interesting. Isabelle plays Maureen, a representative of the French labor union, and she plays her loneliness, anguish, despair, sorrow, conflict, and anger at the mercy of big business and political egos in a cool and unaffected manner, which accentuated the intense reality of this film about a real incident. A suspenseful story of dark intrigue! I shudder to think that such a thrilling incident like the one in the movie really happened in Europe in recent years, and I can’t help but think that it could happen in any country in today’s international situation.
Hidenori Inoue(President/Director, Gekidan Shinkansen)
The darkness of nuclear power. Sexual harassment by authority. The pride of being the head of a union movement. Taking on everything, the woman (Maureen), armed with a shining blonde hair and red rouge, fights on alone. Because how can she give up when she has a goal, the future?
Tomomi Tsutsui (Screenwriter, Author)
As soon as I finished watching the film, I was filled with a rush of emotions: anger and relief.
Anger and relief. Fiction and truth. The company and the union. Treated water” and “contaminated water. Betrayal and friendship.
I was made to think deeply about the meaning of the fact that the story takes place in the nuclear industry.
Isabelle Huppert’s performance gave me courage.
Cheers to the person in charge of adapting the film’s original title “La Syndicaliste” to “I am Maureen Kearney!
Shigenori Kanehira (Journalist)
Is this a special case?
Harassment, violence, discrimination, injustice…
Our daily life is filled with unreasonable things.
Can we continue to raise our voice, even if it is small?
Can we continue to raise our voice, even if it is small?
I was confronted with this question all the while watching the film.
Keiko Hamada (Journalist)
The power of the nuclear power industry has crushed rape
The heroine is made to lie.
She is moved by the husband who continues to believe in his wife, but
but the mysterious series of deaths of the people involved is horrifying.
Both the nuclear power plant and the water industry are in trouble.
Tomohiro Machiyama (Film Critic)
A woman who has been sexually assaulted reapplies her crimson lipstick in front of her doctor immediately afterwards.
This is the first sentence of the film, and anyone who feels uncomfortable with it should first question his or her own discomfort.
The term “good victim” is used repeatedly in this film. The film repeatedly uses the term “good victim,” and the already wounded and exhausted victims are then subjected to secondary violence by being asked to be even “better victims.
With this film, we must firmly reject this normalized structure.
Mizuki Kodama (film writer)
Is she really a victim? These are ridiculous allegations against one woman. But doubt does enter our minds for a moment. The film depicts the horror and stupidity of such suspicions in a chilling manner.
Rie Tsukinaga (writer, editor)
In addition to the humiliating violence used to “silence” the woman, the psychological pain inflicted on Maureen Kearney by the police and the public as a result of the serious second-hand assault is immeasurable. Whose voice should we listen to first in response to the accusations? This film made me want to go back to the starting point and think about it, especially now that the backlash is intensifying.
Sachie Kon (writer/editor)
This real-life drama has a swirling sense of the unknowable and eerie, like a 1970s American political thriller. Isabelle Huppert supernaturally embodies the complex multifaceted nature of Maureen Kearney. The film is made even more fascinating and enigmatic by the skillful direction that omits the decisive moment of a certain major event in the middle part of the film.
Yuji Takahashi (film writer)
≪In no particular order, titles omitted
Director: Jean-Paul Salomé
Screenplay: Jean-Paul Salomé & Fadet Drouard
Photography: Julien Iersch
Music: Bruno Coulet
Cast: Isabelle Huppert / Gregory Gadbois / François-Xavier Demaison / Pierre Deladonchamp / Alexandria Maria Lara / Gilles Cohen / Marina Fois / Ivan Attal
2022 / France, Germany / French, English, Hungarian / 121 min / Color / 1:2.35 CinemaScope / 5.1ch / Original title: LA SYNDICALISTE
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Support: Embassy of France in Japan / Institut français
Distributor：Only Hearts
