The role of Maureen Kearney is tailor-made for 71-year-old Isabelle Huppert, an actor with a unique ability to tell us everything we need to know, while giving nothing away.
his native land to avoid imprisonment and a flogging, the cinema still has the capacity to unsettle the corridors of power.
There is a whole genre of films devoted to whistleblowers, to those who interfere with powerful vested interests and pay a fearful price. It can only be a matter of time until someone makes a film about David McBride,more than five years in prison for revealing abuses within the Australian Defence Force. The irony has not been lost on anyone, that so far the whistleblower is the only person to have been prosecuted.
In Australia, we’ve seen how incoming Labor governments blithely perpetuate the most controversial policies of the Coalition. In NSW, one glaring example is the Minns government’s complete betrayal of the Powerhouse Museum, which as an election policy it had sworn to protect. Other examples could be multiplied, but these are stories for another occasion.
One might assume that such a brutal assault would only underline the urgency of Kearney’s campaign, but this is where the story becomes truly nightmarish. As the investigation proceeds, it appears as if the police are more concerned with searching Kearney’s home and office, putting her through a series of humiliating medical examinations, questioning her motivations, and even her sanity. The implication is that she somehow staged the crime herself to draw attention to her campaign.
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