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THE CONNECTION
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| 2015 – 135′ – Drama,\u00a0Thriller, Action, Crime.
\nWritten by: Audrey Diwan,\u00a0C\u00e9dric Jimenez.
\nDirected by:\u00a0C\u00e9dric Jimenez.
\nStarring: Academy Award-winning\u00a0Jean Dujardin,\u00a0Gilles Lellouche,\u00a0Beno\u00eet Magimel, Guillaume Gouix, C\u00e9line Salette, M\u00e9lanie Doutey, Bruno Todeschini, F\u00e9odor Atkine.
\nOfficial Selections Toronto International Film Festival 2014, Rendez-Vous With French Cinema in New York 2015. Two C\u00e9sar Award Nomination 2015: Best Production Design, Best Costume Design.
\nOfficial Competition\u00a0COLCOA 2015<\/b>.
\nIn French with English subtitles.
\nA Giant Pictures release. |<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Confidently striding in where William Friedkin\u2019s The French Connection\u00a0left off,\u00a0The Connection<\/strong>\u00a0answers with the lesser known but equally thrilling true-crime saga of French magistrate Pierre Michel\u2019s obsessive six year battle to make the streets of Marseille safe from Ga\u00ebtan Zampa, the infamous drug kingpin known as \u201cLa French,\u201d played by\u00a0Mesrine\u2019s\u00a0Gilles Lellouche. In 1975, Zampa\u2019s hydra-tentacled heroin distribution ring is just one piece of an empire that includes procuring, extortion, and robbery. Michel, a man of staunch integrity and tenacity sympathetically incarnated by\u00a0The Artist\u00a0star Jean Dujardin, faces off against Zampa, a surprisingly anti-drug family man, but with a ruthlessness to rival Michel\u2019s relentlessness. At first, Michel tries to play by the rules, but as his job starts to take on the pitched fury of a crusade, it dawns on him that rules don\u2019t mean a thing against a man who has half of the city\u2019s officials paralyzed with fear, and the other half on his payroll.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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