

Magistrate Jeanne Charmant-Killman doggedly investigates CEO Michel Humeau, who is accused of participating in massive corporate malfeasance. As her investigation leads her into the upper echelons of government, Jeanne becomes intoxicated by the power she is amassing.
Acting
Huppert's micro-expressions do more than most monologues.
Direction
Chabrol's final film: bitter, elegant, unsparing.
Writing
Dialogue so sharp you'll need bandages.

Director
Claude Chabrol
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Chabrol's last film; he died months after completing it. The French master's bitter farewell to institutional hypocrisy.
Part of Chabrol's 'Bourgeois Trilogy' about class rot — though he'd been making essentially the same film for 50 years.
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