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The Connection
The contents of the film takes place in the 70s about the life of Pierre Michel - a local police in Marseilles city when he was trying to break a major drug case in the area of brutal Gatean - the gang leader of The French Connection. Pierre Michel has continuously exerted over many years but his efforts float on the river because they always take one step forward. Pierre Michel starts changing his tactics and quietly find the traitor in his police ranks.
19 September 1962, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
9 September 1958, Bayonne, France
15 March 1989, Bruxelles, Belgium
15 November 1962, Chelghoum Laïd, Algeria
August 04, 2016
The movie's strength is in its conception of Michel and Zampa, who develop a destructive rivalry, rooted in their mutual determination to prove their superiority.February 25, 2016
It's familiar. We see the tale unfolding before our eyes from the beginning. But that doesn't make it any less enjoyable. It's a fast-paced story, confidently told.June 11, 2015
It's a stylish affair, very solidly made if not exactly breaking new ground in our understanding of events or in the way the movies depict them.December 31, 2015
Jimenez hasn't exactly broken the period-crime-thriller mold, but he's built a solid entertainment, with techniques well absorbed from the American movie tradition.June 04, 2015
It starts with gunshots - a Mercedes and its driver are riddled by motorcycle-riding assassins in broad daylight - and the pace of "The Connection" is bang-bang brisk most of the rest of the way.June 25, 2015
There is ample photographic evidence that the '70s were not, in fact, the best-looking, coolest decade ever. But you wouldn't know it from watching The Connection.June 04, 2015
While the story lacks focus here and there, the film never feels overplayed. It's a work of bloody style and solid substance.June 05, 2015
It may prove too slow for some and the meandering can be a little maddening, but overall it's worth the effort.May 20, 2016
Not just a strong likeness of Michel, Jean Dujardin has the right over-sized presence for the honest Magistrate.December 31, 2015
Dujardin and Lellouche are great here.July 03, 2015
A byzantine, if ultimately conventional, heroic tale that feels like a guided tour down a familiar alley.February 22, 2016
Excels at playing with expected genre conventions and crime story boilerplate to shrink a globe-trotting incident down to, essentially, a strategic game of cat and mouse.