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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.
Jun 21, 2024 · Jean-Paul Salomé’s The Sitting Duck – an expressive translation of a French film called La Syndicaliste (“the unionist”) – shows that such stories are not confined to the United States.
Jun 13, 2024 · A political thriller concerning a trade union official and whistleblower who wasn’t believed after a violent personal attack, The Sitting Duck, is based on fact. The central figure is Maureen Kearney (Isabelle Huppert), who had a hood put over her head, before being bound, raped and cut on 17 th December, 2012.
Jun 24, 2024 · Isabelle Huppert stars in this tense political thriller based on a true story. This tense political thriller from director Jean-Paul Salome ( Arsene Lupin, etc) proves once again that fact is often stranger than fiction.
Academy Award nominee Isabelle Huppert is nothing short of electrifying as the real-life whistle-blower Maureen Kearney, a trade unionist who dared to challenge the powerful nuclear industry at immense personal cost.
Jun 26, 2024 · THE SITTING DUCK/ LA SYNDACALISTE France, 2023, 121 minutes, Colour. Isabelle Huppert, Gregory Gadbois, François-Xavier Demaison, Pierre Deladojnchamps, Alexandra Maria Lara, Mara T...
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.
