The French Connection
As a tribute to William Friedkin, the most indomitable of New Hollywood filmmakers, we present his first major success, which won him the Oscar for Best Director: The French Connection. Blending realistic aesthetics and action cinema tricks, the filmmaker revisits the gangster film and shakes up American cinema by filming dubious anti-heroes in a grimy setting. In the process, he produced one of the greatest chase scenes in cinema history and launched the careers of two talented actors: Roy Scheider and Gene Hackman.
Winner of 5 Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director.
Two police officers specialized in narcotics are investigating a major heroin trafficking network supplying New York. They lead a shadowing operation full of twists and turns in an attempt to dismantle this major network, which has its roots in France.
William Friedkin
William Friedkin is an American film director, screenwriter and producer. In 1965, he produced and directed the documentary The People vs. Paul Crump which won the Golden Gate award at the 1962 San Francisco International Film Festival. In 1967, Friedkin directed his first theatrical film, Good Times, a musical comedy starring the duo Sonny and Cher. He then went on to direct two huge commercial successes, now considered classics of American cinema: the crime drama French Connection in 1971 and the fantasy drama The Exorcist in 1973.
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