TheHarvey Weinstein affair, which broke in the fall of 2017, and the #MeToo movement, which ensued, started from a long-running journalistic investigation by two New York Times women. Their investigation is the subject of a film, She Said, starring Carey Mulligan. The film is broadcast this Wednesday, September 27, at 10:35 pm on Canal+.
With She Said, German director Maria Schrader (the Netflix series Unorthodox, the 2016 biopic of Stefan Zweig, I'm Your Man released in cinemas just a few weeks ago) has chosen to evoke theWeinstein affair through the prism of the two investigative journalists who brought the scandal to light.
Maria Schrader 's She Said stars Carey Mulligan(Promising Young Woman) and Zoe Kazan(The Plot Against America).
Our verdict
It's never a good idea to take such a recent news item and turn it into a movie, especially as you can't help but think of Scandal when watching She Said. This film, released in January 2020, already dealt with the sexual harassment and rape scandal within the editorial staff of the American television network Fox News. The two films inevitably echo each other.
But this feeling is quickly overcome, as the film enthralls by showing the two journalists trying to go against a well-oiled and unhealthy machination that has been in place for decades. It's extremely difficult to talk about a subject when a well-oiled system is in place to sweep it under the carpet. Victims are muzzled, discredited, and everything is done to prevent them from speaking out. In fact, even when they do speak out, no one believes them. On several occasions, the silence of the victims is compared to the silence of the Jews who returned from the concentration camps after the Second World War. I'm not sure how apt this comparison is, but it's certainly evocative.
Finally, this is a very good investigative film. American cinema is fascinated by investigative journalism; it's almost a genre in its own right. If you like The President's Men, Spotlight or Pentagon Papers (to name but a few), She Said should please you, as well as teaching you more about one of the greatest scandals in cinema history.
Two New York Times journalists, Megan Twohey(Carey Mulligan) and Jodi Kantor(Zoe Kazan), together brought to light one of the most important scandals of their generation. At the origin of the #Metoo movement, their investigation broke decades of silence around the problem of sexual assault in the Hollywood film industry, changing American society and the world of culture forever.
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