The Connection

The Connection (La French) follows the magistrate and police squad in Marseilles who sought to take down the ‘French Connection’ drug trafficking operation in the early 1970s.The Connection‘s existence seems marketed as a filmic corrective; William Friedkin’s The French Connection is seemingly the definitive take on the subject matter yet it completely sidelines the involvement of international police in France and Turkey, pinning much of the operation’s unravelling on two American cops. The...