Reviews – Film: The Whistleblower
by Cameron Murray , under Reviews, Web Exclusives
THE WHISTLEBLOWER
Director: Larysa Kondracki
Stars: Rachel Weisz, Vanessa Redgrave, Monica Bellucci, David Strathairn, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Roxana Condurache, David Hewlett
HOPSCOTCH
BASED on a true story, The Whistleblower is a powerful thriller about one woman’s quest for justice in the face of overwhelming odds.
Rachel Weisz (The Mummy, The Constant Gardener, The Fountain) plays Kathryn Bolkovac, a cash-strapped American cop who takes on a lucrative short-term contract as a peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia. Aligned with the United Nations but working for a private US company, she rises quickly through the ranks and ends up as head of the UN’s Gender Office, which deals with investigations into crimes against women.
As Bolkovac digs deeper, she comes to the shocking realisation that members of the UN and the international peacekeeping force are complicit in widespread illegal prostitution and sex trafficking. The men buy and sell kidnapped girls for sport, safe in the knowledge they can’t be prosecuted because they have diplomatic immunity.
With help from the head of the UN Human Rights Commission (Redgrave) and a senior Internal Affairs officer (Strathairn), Bolkovac does everything she can to expose the evil practice and the high-level corruption facilitating it.
Weisz shines in perhaps her grittiest role yet, and first-time director Larysa Kondracki doesn’t let the story drag at all. The Whistleblower is a confronting film that delivers an important message better than any dry documentary ever could.
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