Posts tagged “french film festival

☆ lady of law part 3: the state of justice

Posted on 28 March 2007

there are so many puns i can think of for this entry – there’s no justice in justice, where’s the justice? justice of the fleased” but i decided not to call it any of these. this entry is about the fragile place of justice in the judicial system these days, and in particular in the real of white-collar corproate law. it is a very long and compliated process dealing with a corporate law matter. there are paper trails to follow which becomes difficult if those papers have been shredded. there are key middle and upper management to question, which becomes difficult if they won’t talk, or worse, you can’t find them. there are transactions to track, which becomes difficult when swiss bank accounts are…

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☆ lady of law part 2: women at law

Posted on 28 March 2007

the interplay of jeanne charmant-killman (played by isabelle huppert) as a woman in law in l’ivresse du pouvoir (a comedy of power) is interesting. she is like so many other women in law, both fictional and in the real world. they are highly masculinised and need to be strong, and hard working and tough in order to prove their place. the masculinity of the law is unquestionable. for centuries it was men who spoke the law: as judge, as counsel, as commentator. arguably they still do. something which is hard to break given that the law perpetuates its own masculinism, in its operation, its culture and its recruitments (for more on women in law, see my post in what it feels like for a…

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☆ lady of law part 1: comedy of power

Posted on 27 March 2007

as a law student i am sometime a little hesitant about seeing films that deal with the law. much like i assume most doctors don’t sit down to er or grey’s anatomy. but for some reason i was drawn to l’ivresse du pouvoir (a comedy of power). the film i belive is somewhat based on the elf white collar corruption scandal during the 1990s. investigating judge, jeanne (“the pirahna”) charmant-killman (played by isabelle huppert, an actress i fell in love with because of i heart huckabees (2004)) is finally coming to a head on a matter she has been investigating suspected embezzlement and fraud against a range of corporate bigwigs, starting with a well-known group of companies boss humeau (played by françois berléand). in…

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