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The Connection

La French (The Connection)

2014

Cédric Jimenez

Jean Dujardin, Gilles Lellouche, Céline Sallette, Benoît Magimel ...

6.6

2,665

Thriller. Drama Academy Award winner Jean Dujardin (The Artist) stars as French police magistrate Pierre Michel, who waged an obsessive six-year battle to bring down Marseilles' infamous "French Connection" drug ring.

	Author	Review
United States	Kyle Smith New York Post	"A passable French homage to the American crime epic (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"Jimenez adopts a vintage-kitsch sensibility, taking a disappointingly generic approach to his hard-to-follow narrative."	NEU
United States	John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"A procedural epic whose complicated narrative is propelled by visceral action sequences and an unusually thrilling soundtrack."	POS
United States	Colin Covert Minneapolis Star Tribune	"While the story lacks focus here and there, the film never feels overplayed. It's a work of bloody style and solid substance (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Robert Abele Los Angeles Times	"Despite the pedestrian screenplay, Dujardin and Lellouche are magnetic performers who slip easily into their antagonistic roles"	POS

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