“We prefer the detective reporter, like Tintin, to the whistleblower”: investigative journalism tested on the big screen. In France, Méliès was interested in the profession as early as The Dreyfus Affair, in 1899.
“In the United States, the chronicle intimate is secondary: the investigation and denunciation, the links between politics and the media, the collective epic are of more interest,” says Fabrice Arfi, film buff and co-director of investigations at Mediapart.