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No More Flowers

THE SITTING DUCK
LA SYNDICALISTE

• Director: Jean-Paul Salomé
• FRANCE, GERMANY / 2022 / DCP / Colour / 122’ / French; Turkish, English s.t.

• Screenplay: Jean-Paul Salomé, Fadette Drouard
• Original Work: Caroline Michel-Aguirre
• Director of Photography: Julien Hirsch
• Editing: Valérie Deseine, Aïn Varet
• Music: Bruno Coulais
• Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Yvan Attal, Marina Foïs, Alexandra Maria Lara, Grégory Gadebois, François-Xavier Demaison, Pierre Deladonchamps
• Producer: Bertrand Faivre, Bettina Brokemper
• Production Co.: Le Bureau, Heimatfilm
• World Sales: The Bureau Sales

A political and psychological thriller, The Sitting Duck tells the true story of Maureen Kearney, the head union representative of a French multinational nuclear powerhouse. She became a whistleblower, denouncing top-secret deals that shook the French nuclear sector. Alone against the world, she fought government ministers and industry leaders, tooth and nail to bring the scandal to light and to defend more than 50,000 jobs...Her life was turned upside down when she was violently assaulted in her own home... The investigation is carried out under pressure: the subject is sensitive. Suddenly, new elements create doubt in the minds of the investigators. At first a victim, Maureen becomes a suspect. Isabelle Huppert in the lead as Maureen, The Sitting Duck premiered at the Venice Film Festival’s Orizzonti section.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.