“La syndicaliste”, the story of a whistleblower

The film La Syndicalist by director Jean-Paul Salomé will be released in cinemas on Wednesday 1 March. In this film, Isabelle Huppert literally slipped into the skin of Maureen Kearney. This trade unionist from the CFDT defended Areva’s 50,000 employees. In 2011, an informant gave him a document proving that an agreement was being prepared between EDF, China and the new boss of Areva to build low-cost nuclear power plants. She then tries by all means to raise the alarm.

The portrait of a committed woman

In February 2012, she was attacked in her home and found tied to a chair with the handle of a knife stuck in her vagina. On his belly, an “A” was engraved with a blade, as shown in a photo from the gendarmerie’s investigation report. By discovering the film which retraces her ordeal, this woman of Irish origin, was upset. La Syndicalist is a thriller, but also a political and feminist film. He tells how, from victim, Maureen Kearney became suspect accused of perjury. A movie that offers a beautiful portrait of a committed woman who paid dearly the price of the truth.