La Syndicaliste review – Isabelle Huppert is fascinating in blood-boiling injustice drama

'My name is Maureen Kearney. I didn't lie. I didn't make anything up." This French drama about a blood-boiling real-life case of injustice is the story of whistleblower and rape survivor Maureen Kearney, who for four years lived with a criminal record: falsely convicted of wasting police time, accused of inventing her rape. It's a political thriller that tells the story matter-of-factly, and is perhaps a little lacking in the pace department. But Isabelle Huppert carries it along with a performance every bit as gripping as you'd expect. (Kearney is actually Irish, but has lived and worked in France since…