Judge Jeanne Charmant Killman (Isabelle Huppert) is assigned the job of investigating a high-profile case of corruption and embezzlement at a giant statesupported company. Under her orders the CEO Michel Humeau (Franois Berland) is taken in to custody. As her investigation gathers momentum Killman uncovers an immense scandal reaching into the upper echelons of government. The deeper she delves and the more she uncovers the more powerful she becomes. However under the pressures of her sudden influence and notoriety Killman's private life begins to unravel and she... finds herself probing both the limits of her own power and its intoxicating grip. [show more]
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Claude Chabrol directs this French drama, which is inspired by real events surrounding the fraud inquiry into the French oil company Elf Aquitaine in the mid-1990s. Isabelle Huppert stars as Jeanne Charmant-Killman, a tough and shrewd judge assigned to the case of Michel Humeau (Francois Berleand), the corrupt president of a national corporation who thinks he is above the law. As the case unfolds, revealing the cynical and immoral financial dealings of a welter of public figures, Jeanne becomes increasingly intoxicated with the power she wields by sending these powerful wrongdoers to jail.
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