Film
HARRY MOUNT
She Said (15)
This admirable film about Harvey Weinstein is Hamlet without the prince – or without the serial sexual predator, to be precise. Every detail of Weinstein’s rapes and sexual assaults is carefully and correctly recounted. But Weinstein (played by Mike Houston) appears only briefly and then only from the back and never says anything to the camera – though you do hear his chilling, deadpan voice in recordings of his threats to his victims and New York Times editors for exposing him. It was two New York Times reporters, Megan Twohey (a masterful performance by Carey Mulligan, with a pitch-perfect American accent) and Jodi Kantor (a convincing, understated Zoe Kazan), who helped bring Weinstein down. Ronan Farrow, son of Woody Allen and Mia Farrow, was carrying out a parallel but separate exposé for the New Yorker. Both scoops were triumphs of journalism. Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s screenplay and Maria Schrader’s direction accurately and...
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