In one of the rooms of the Lincoln Center, on Thursday night, the actress and feminist activist Ashley Judd, one of the first to denounce that she was a victim of sexual harassment by Weinstein, was applauded by the public.
In Maria Schrader’s film, Judd plays her own role, that of an actress who refused to fall for the producer’s blackmail and paid the price for her entire career, before deciding to speak out years later.
“It is so important to have our truth and to have a clear conscience about our history, that it has not cost me anything to do it,” he said of the role he represents, before paying tribute to his “sisters”, other Weinstein victims who were present at the projection.
Duo
On October 5, 2017, after months of work, the article by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey was published in the daily New York Times and broke the silence of women, leading to the #MeToo movement on discrimination or sexual violence, which went far beyond the cinema.
But she saidadapted from the book of the same name by the two Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists, is completely unconcerned about the repercussions of her investigation. In the style of All the President’s Men (1976) about the Watergate scandal, or spot lightwhich put the spotlight on the investigation of the newspaper bostonglobe about pederasty in the Catholic Church, this film is a tribute to the patient and tenacious work of investigative journalists.
Nearly half a century after the duet of Washington Post which was played by Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman (All the President’s Men), now they are two women, experienced journalists and young mothers, who made the powerful tremble, with the help of a shadowy but essential editor, Rebecca Corbett and the unconditional support of editor-in-chief Dean Baquet.
“One of the reasons we’re so honored by this film is that it really sums up our idea of journalism,” said Jodi Kantor after the screening. “We’ve been journalists for a long time, but the Weinstein case somehow underscores everything we believe in,” he added.
The duo is played by Zoe Kazan as Kantor and Carey Mulligan as Twohey.
The film highlights their complementarity: the first, the work of persuasion and empathy to make the victims, actresses or employees of Miramax bear witness; the other, the duels before Weinstein’s lieutenants.
With a sober set design and script and serious music by Nicholas Britell, she said is gaining intensity until the final face to face between New York Times and Harvey Weinstein and his attorneys, at the time of the article’s publication.
The film is distributed by Universal Pictures, which counts Brad Pitt among its producers. It can be seen in theaters in the United States from November 18 and soon after in Europe.