A film about the Harvey Weinstein case, but above all an ode to investigative journalism and the women who had the courage to speak up: She saidWednesday in French cinemas, recounts the lengthy investigative work that sparked the #MeToo movement five years ago.
Already sentenced to 23 years in prison for rape and sexual assault in 2020 in New York, the influential former film producer is on trial again in Los Angeles.
on screen on She saidThe actress and feminist activist Ashley Judd, one of the first to denounce the sexual harassment to which Harvey Weinstein had subjected her, plays her own role: that of an actress who rejected the producer’s sexual advances and paid the price, before resolving years later speak openly
“It’s so important to be in our truth and have a moral right to our own history that I had no problem doing it,” the actress said in October, during a screening of the film at New York’s Lincoln Center, before paying tribute. to her “sisters” of hers, other Weinstein victims who were also present at the screening.
duels and persuasion
On October 5, 2017, when the New York Times publishes the article by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, after months of hard work, it will bring about the downfall of the untouchable Hollywood producer and the #MeToo wave of free speech for women in violence sexuality or sexism, far beyond the cinema.
But She saidby German filmmaker Maria Schrader and adapted from the book of the same name by the two Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists, pays little attention to the repercussions of their research.
like the movie The President’s Men (1976) about the Watergate scandal, or stand out (2015), which highlighted the Boston Globe’s investigation into child delinquency in the Catholic Church, the film is first and foremost a tribute to the patient and tenacious work of investigative journalists.
“Honored by this film”
Nearly half a century after the Washington Post duo of Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman (The President’s Men), are two women, brave journalists and young mothers, who make the powerful tremble, with the help of a shadowy but crucial editor, Rebecca Corbett and the unconditional support of her editor-in-chief, Dean Baquet.
“One of the reasons we are so honored by this film is that it really embodies our beliefs in journalism,” Jodi Kantor told New York. “We’ve been journalists for a long time, but the Weinstein case underscores everything we believe in and puts exclamation points on it,” she added.
The duo is played by Zoe Kazan, who plays Jodi Kantor, and Carey Mulligan as Megan Twohey. The film highlights their complementarity: in the first the work of persuasion and empathy to make the victims, actresses or Miramax employees testify, in the other the duels faced by Weinstein’s lieutenants.
With understated direction and writing, and serious music by Nicholas Britell, She said it builds in intensity until the final face-off between the New York Times and Harvey Weinstein and his lawyers, at the time of the article’s publication.
Source: BFM TV
