The Whistleblower

Rachael Weisz

Hard-hitting account of a female cop sent to Bosnia by a private "security" company after NATO's demolition of Yugoslavia and encountering atrocities against young women. Her struggle against virtually everyone (except Vanessa Redgrave who shows up now and then as an enigmatic but sympathetic UN official) becomes very hard to watch as the level of abuse goes up and up...to somewhere beyond what I was willing to watch.

RW was superb as usual. She buried her British punctiliousness and believably played a working class American law enforcement person.

The film was a bit of an ordeal, intended to bring attention to a wrong but really became an exercise in stamina for this viewer. Still...well done.

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