Ahead of its world premiere at TIFF a French-language trailer for The Connection has been released, and you don't really need English subtitles to tell what's going on or to see that Dujardin is on-point. Fortunately, there are subtitles, anyway. Here's the synopsis:
Newly transferred to the bustling port city of Marseille to assist with a crackdown on organized crime, energetic young magistrate Pierre Michel (Dujardin) 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 (Gilles Lellouche of Mesrine: Killer Instinct). Fearless, determined and willing to go the distance, Pierre plunges into an underworld world of insane danger and ruthless criminals.
Drafthouse Films have the U.S. rights but have yet to reveal a release date. The Connection opens in France this December so maybe we'll see it around that time.
