(Cédric
Jimenez/2014/France & Belgium)
The
connection in the title being French as in the 1971 William Friedkin
film about drugs smuggling through Marseilles to New York based on
real events. The Connection looks at the story from the French side
and details the story of Judge Pierre Michel and criminal Tany Zampa
who were more or less arch rivals on the side of law and disorder
respectively in 1970’s Marseilles. The film is an excellent
character study of both the protagonists and has plenty of action and
style but it is at the end of the day a gangster film and doesn’t
push against or beyond that genre in any way. It’s a good film and
a compelling story but there’s nothing spectacular about it in and
of itself.
(2.5/5)
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