Given that Isabelle Huppert has been acting in films for more than 50 years and that viewers have grown to implicitly trust her, it is difficult to imagine that the French court system would ever dispute the character's word. In telling the story of Maureen Kearney, the Irish trade unionist whose 2012 rape accusation was disregarded as fiction after she revealed plans for an exchange of nuclear technology between businesses in France and China, director Jean-Paul Salomé largely draws on this sense of anger. The drama has two parts and is based on a book by journalist Caroline Michel-Aguirre. The first centres on Kearney's determination to get Luc Oursel, the CEO of Areva (Yvan Attal), to acknowledge that his covert negotiations put thousands of jobs at danger. The second half of the film revolves on the police investigation that Adjudant-Chef Brémont (Pierre Deladonchamps) oversaw after the early-morning assault in which Kearney was strapped to a chair and molested with a knife handle. This inquiry was both shoddy and misogynistic. Huppert provides a masterclass in opaque intensity despite not attempting an Irish accent. Even while it benefits her by emphasising the absurdity of the police conclusion that Kearney had not behaved like a true rape victim, her emotionless stoicism makes her seem somewhat distant. In fact, the events are detailed in such a cunningly planned fashion that it's challenging to ignore the levers being pulled as indignation-inducing elements are inserted into the plot. This sense of institutionalised misogyny and injustice is skillfully reinforced by the slick camerawork and precise editing. However, neither has much of an effect on Salomé's plot, which is delivered with the quick accessibility of a TV movie. For this reason, the usually trustworthy Attal goes above and above to portray Oursel's disdain, and the bespectacled Huppert looks directly into the camera at the end to ensure that the point has been made. This wonderfully performed true-life condemnation of pervasive chauvinism throughout French culture presents a shocking story with conviction and care, but it lacks the intrigue, grit, and fury to elicit the appropriate response.