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  1. The Sitting Duck (French: La Syndicaliste, lit. 'The Trade Unionist') is a 2022 French-language thriller film directed by Jean-Paul Salomé from a screenplay he co-wrote with Fadette Drouard. The film is a co-production between France and Germany.

  2. Jun 17, 2024 · The Sitting Duck movie review: A true story of a nuclear whistleblower. The role of Maureen Kearney is tailor-made for 71-year-old Isabelle Huppert, an actor with a unique ability to...

  3. Sep 2, 2022 · Read Deadline's review of Isabelle Huppert-starrer The Sitting Duck (La Syndicaliste), screening in Horizons at the Venice Film Festival.

    • Stephanie Bunbury
  4. Jun 13, 2024 · Film review: The Sitting Duck. A self-made trade unionist in France who blows the whistle on a nuclear industry scandal is targeted in a vicious sexual attack – then accused of making it up as society turns its judgment on her.

  5. Jul 24, 2023 · Isabelle Huppert stars as Maureen Kearney, a trade union whistleblower and rape survivor who is disbelieved and charged by the French justice system. The film is a fact-based procedural that explores institutional misogyny and corporate skulduggery in the nuclear industry.

    • Guy Lodge
  6. Feb 28, 2023 · The Sitting Duck is the true story of Maureen Kearney (Isabelle Huppert), the head union representative of a French multinational nuclear powerhouse. She became a whistleblower, denouncing top-secret deals that shook the French nuclear sector.

    • France, Germany
    • La Syndicaliste
    • The Sitting Duck
    • The Bureau Sales
  7. Story by Guy Lodge. • 10mo. As a female union rep in the oppressively male-dominated French nuclear industry, Maureen Kearney — the real-life heroine of Jean-Paul Salomé’s “The Sitting...