Jean Dujardin Archives

SIFF 2015: Methodical and passionate, ‘The Connection’ celebrates smart crime-dramas

‘The Connection’ masterfully mixes police procedurals, gangster sagas, and chain smoking into a riveting crime drama.

Tokyo 2014: ‘The Connection’ tells the European side of events of the infamous drug operation

Not to be confused with the 1971 classic The French Connection starring Gene Hackman, director Cedric Jimenez’s second feature The Connection essentially tells the European side of events of the infamous drug operation. Academy Award-winner Jean Dujardin leads a strong cast as Pierre Michel, a magistrate stationed in Marseille, determined to cut off the supply chain but unaware of how high up corruption from the local Corsican mob has spread up the political food chain.

SIFF 2015: Methodical and passionate, ‘The Connection’ celebrates smart crime-dramas

Tokyo 2014: ‘The Connection’ tells the European side of events of the infamous drug operation

‘The Monuments Men’ wastes an excellent ensemble in a dull, uninspired WWII-set heist story

TJFF 2012: ‘OSS 117: Lost in Rio’; from the 60’s with love

BAFTAs 2012 – Who’s going to win? Part 2

‘The Artist’ works as an effective homage to, rather than an irritating aping of, a particular brand of populist cinema

Should ‘The Artist’ count as a Foreign Language film?

‘The Artist’ is a perfect throwback to a lost art

‘The Artist’ Movie Review: A perfect throwback to a lost art