'Uncovered': Convincing if somewhat flat recreation of the Weinstein investigation that gave birth to MeToo

When the

is still making headlines, She Said is

,

the Hollywood film directed by the German Maria Schrader about the journalistic investigation led in 2017 by

Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor.

Together with Ronan Farrow - who investigated the same case in parallel for

and who shared the Pulitzer Prize with them - Twohey and Kantor managed to end decades of sexual abuse by the famous producer and distributor of Miramax.

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Of the references that

the most obvious is that of

, Alan J. Pakula's classic about how Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, from

uncovered the

The parallels are minor with

which captured the mechanics of a journalistic investigative work like few others, on

's exclusive on the pedophilia scandal within the Boston Catholic Church.

Uncovered is the first non-documentary film to be shot at

offices

in Manhattan to focus on investigations that changed the course of time, inside and outside the United States, through the two reporters who investigated Weinstein and also through the women who dared to denounce him.

In some cases, like that of Ashley Judd or Gwyneth Paltrow, they play themselves.

Despite its clear positioning,

It is a contained film, which tries not to get carried away by the most syrupy epic in Hollywood.

Convincing and well-acted by Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan, the film, however, ends up being somewhat flat in its development, especially because it misleads too many times from the investigation to introduce pills from the lives of the two journalists who overemphasize their efforts to reconcile maternity and work.

Family life is a complex matter to handle for any female journalist, and the film makes a commendable effort to insist on that aspect: they are women and that conditioned their way of approaching the case, but it is unnecessary to stress over and over again their maternity interrupting the course of exciting research.

It is enough with that interview in the first minutes of Megan Twohey's film in the kitchen of her house with Donald Trump to understand to what extent the job invades the domestic life of a journalist.

Trump's shadow at the beginning of the film is not free either;

he stresses that it was his coming to power that laid the seed of the MeToo movement, which was also the result of a perfect storm between sex scandal, Hollywood and social networks.

Five years after its birth, the MeToo has a triple spearhead this season made up of two films that vindicate the power of sorority, this one and

by Sarah Polley, and a third,

which investigates the dark side of power and talent.

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At one point in

the reporters doubt whether anyone is going to care about a case involving such a powerful man and, above all, one that leaves an even worse question on the table: how many Harvey Weinsteins are there in the world? ?

According to the director Nina Menkes in her documentary

a postMeToo survey reveals that 90% of women who have worked in the orbit of Hollywood have ever felt violated or directly harassed.

In other words, the film industry is supported by a system that has made it possible to harass and humiliate its workers (actresses, assistants, technicians, interns...) while protecting the men who abused their power.

If the wonderful

(2019) turned Weinstein into a monster always out of the field,

focuses on something substantial for any journalist, the voices, including the wrath of the almighty producer.

That “She said” from the original title

that vindicates the ability of two reporters to gain the trust of the sources and sit in front of them with a weapon as apparently simple as knowing how to listen.

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Directed by:

Maria Schrader. 

Cast:

Carey Mulligan, Zoe Kazan, Patricia Clarkson, Andre Braugher, Samantha Morton, Ashley Judd.

Genre:

drama.

United States, 2022.

Duration:

135 minutes.

Premiere: December 28.

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