The Whistleblower
In the lineage of real-life David-and-Goliath movies in which intrepid seekers of the truth investigate malfeasance in high places, The Whistleblower deserves an honorable mention. The directorial debut of Larysa Kondracki, this grueling exposé of human trafficking in postwar Bosnia teeters in an uneasy balance between quasi-documentary and fiction.
(...) As Kathryn Bolkovac (Rachel Weisz), the movie’s slingshot-toting American heroine, marches into a political minefield, she seems strangely immune to danger until near the end of the film. The Whistleblower ultimately fizzles by withholding any cathartic sense that justice was done, or ever will be done (...).
Prevented from transferring to Atlanta to be nearer to her daughter, she impulsively accepts a lucrative job as a United Nations peacekeeping officer in Bosnia in 1999. The blunt, fearless Kathryn embraces her new job with a gusto that immediately raises eyebrows among her cynical co-workers, who look down at the Eastern Europeans they have been charged to help.
The Whistleblower tells a story so repellent that it is almost beyond belief.
Stephen Holden, The New York Times
Duration: 112 min
Dialogue: English, Russian
Subtitles: Finnish
Age limit: K15
