3/05/2015

Jean Dujardin Takes On the Drug War in 'The Connection' Red Band Trailer


Ever what the flipside to William Friedkin's classic The French Connection would look like? Well, you got a taste when the teaser for Cedric Jimenez's La French (aka The Connection) was released last summer. Now a fuller red band version of the trailer has landed and it shows a more serious, gritty side to The Artist star, Jean Dujardin.

The film stars Dujardin as real-life detective Pierre Michel as he tries to put an end to a drug smuggling ring known as "The French Connection" in the 1970s. Stylistically, and naturally in terms of story, this looks like a slickly produced companion piece to Friedkin's film.

Also starring Gilles Lellouche, The Connection opens on May 15th.