The Connection

Cédric Jimenez : 2014
La French

Newly transferred to the bustling port of Marseille to assist with a crackdown on organised crime, energetic young magistrate Pierre Michel is given a rapid-fire tutorial on the city's out-of-control drug trade. Pierre's wildly ambitious mission is to bring down the French Connection, a highly organised operation that controls the city's underground heroin economy and is overseen by the notorious, and reputedly untouchable, Gaëtan Zampa. Fearless, obsessive and determined to go the distance, Pierre plunges into an underworld of insane danger and ruthless criminals. However, he may just find that the connection reaches closer to him than once thought. Cédric Jimenez's second feature premiered at Toronto International Film Festival 2014, and had its European premiere at Stockholm Film Festival 2014.