• Megan Twohey and Jodi Cantor led an investigation that led to producer Harvey Weinstein's downfall.

  • "She Said" tracks their meticulous investigations to identify the victims and convince them to speak.

  • This instructive film, built like a thriller and carried by Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan, is fascinating.

How New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Cantor brought down producer Harvey Weinstein?

This is told by Maria Schrader in

She Said

.

Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan play the main roles of the courageous and determined reporters who launched the MeToo movement in 2017.


It took perseverance for these women to lift the veil on the turpitude (rape, sexual assault and other abuses of power) that the Hollywood producer inflicted on the women who worked with him.

More or less known actresses or assistants were the victims of this brutal man devoid of any scruple to attack the most fragile causing indelible traumas in his path.

Meticulous work

Supported by the management of their newspaper as well as by their companions, these everyday heroines will allow the word to be freed, a meticulous work from which journalism emerges grown.

Like works like Alan J. Pakula

's The President's Men

or Tom McCarthy

's most recent

Spotlight ,

She Said

proves to be both fascinating and didactic in showing how mentalities can be changed with sometimes demoralizing investigative work. , often rewarding.

“The consequences of this article and the movement it started have been enormous.

These changes go far beyond Hollywood,” explains the director known for having signed episodes of the

Unorthodox

series .

The viewer follows the two young women in their investigations and their struggle to convince the victims to speak and then to persuade them to testify by renouncing their anonymity.

Little by little, we discover with them the extent of the damage caused by the producer as well as his attempts to cover up the affair.

The Pultizer Prize in 2018

The work of Megan Twohey and Jodi Cantor won them the Pulitzer Prize in 2018. This well-directed film emphasizes the strength of these exceptional women who, not content with juggling careers and family lives, have definitively changed the world's view of the relationship of domination in the professional environment.

She Said

("She said" in French) takes on the appearance of a thriller to pay them a deserved tribute.

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