[FILM]
SHE SAID
Girl power: Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan.
★★★★
OUT 25 NOVEMBER / CERT 15 128 MINS
DIRECTOR Maria Schrader
CAST Carey Mulligan, Zoe Kazan, Patricia Clarkson, Andre Braugher, Jennifer Ehle, Samantha Morton, Ashley Judd
PLOT
New York Times journalists Jodi Kantor (Kazan) and Megan Twohey (Mulligan) begin work on a new investigation: several women, off the record, speak about years of sexual abuse at the hands of Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein. But what will it take for them to speak on record?
JOURNALISTS ARE RARELY interesting enough to be the centre of a film. There’s a reason we tell other people’s stories — shining a light on incredible, singular human beings doing things the world previously thought impossible. But as with Spotlight or All The President’s Men, sometimes the journalists become the story. Such as five years ago, when New York Times journalists Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey broke the story of Harvey Weinstein’s abuse and misconduct in Hollywood.