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In December 2012, Maureen Kearney appeared in the basement of her home on the outskirts of Paris victim of a brutal attack. Handcuffed, the aggressor had engraved the letter A in her gut with a knife and then inserted the handle of the knife through her vagina. The letter could be A for Areva, then a French nuclear power giant for which Kearney was a shop steward, or A for warning, "avertissement" in French.
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That event was neither the most twisted nor the cruelest that Kearney experienced. The events that followed that aggression center An easy target, the French political thriller that in two hours exposes a real case of the hand of the actress Isabelle Huppert in one of her favorite roles, that of "ball player" or "pimple in the ass", as defined with little sweetness by the CEO of Areva in the film.
The presentation of Kearney's character appeals to the epic: in a nuclear plant in Hungary, the fierce trade unionist leads the protest of a group of women fired from their jobs. That will be one of the few moments in which that union epic of a tough character will emerge, dedicated to the defense of workers who were victims of a bad management that was further complicated by the defaults that followed the accident at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in 2011. A woman whose grays (many of them only suggested) wrap a plot too dry, at least for a viewer unfamiliar with the machinations that the film paints.
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Inspired by the investigative book The Trade Unionist, by Caroline Michel-Aguirre, An Easy Target is a thriller of dispatches, police and final judgment through which rivalries of the French nuclear industry circulate, plots with China, names of some ministers and the presidents of the republic Nicolas Sarkozy and François Hollande. Between so much tie and thick brushstrokes of misogyny, all the tension of the film lies in Huppert's interpretation, in her ability to attract and repel in equal parts, obsessive and icy in her warrior uniform: red lipstick, heels, glasses and blonde bangs. Their work is worthwhile, but trusting the success of the group to that winning card does not seem enough.
An easy target
Address: Jean-Paul Salome.
Interpreters: Isabelle Huppert, Marina Foïs, Grégory Gadebois, Yvan Attal, Pierre Deladonchamps.
Genre: thriller, France, 2022.
Duration: 122 minutes.
Premiere: June 9.
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