The Connection (2014)
Directed by Cédric Jimenez
Newly transferred to the bustling port city of Marseille to assist with a crackdown on organized crime, energetic young magistrate Pierre Michel is given a rapid-fire tutorial on the ins and outs of an out-of-control drug trade. Pierre's wildly ambitious mission is to take on the French Connection, a highly organized operation that controls the city's underground heroin economy and is overseen by the notorious —and reputedly untouchable— Gaetan Zampa. Fearless, determined and willing to go the distance, Pierre plunges into an underworld world of insane danger and ruthless criminals.
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What critics compared The Connection to
At least during its early passages wherein details and exposition are given throughout pop-soundtrack montage and scenes of drug use and violence that recall the likes of Casino.
When Marseilles Juvenile Magistrate Pierre Michel ("The Artist's" Jean Dujardin sporting vintage sideburns) is promoted to Organized Crime to investigate La French, new partner Lucien (Bernard Blancan, "Leaving") has his doubts, but Michel is passionate about stopping the ruination and violence wrought by the heroin trade of "The Connection."