The French Connection Hello

During the late 1950s, Corsican Jean Jehan was the kingpin of international heroin smuggling. He was never arrested for smuggling drugs, but he was a national hero to the French, so it’s not surprising that he escaped jail time.

He also was one of the first people to take a stance against sex discrimination and made a big splash at Cannes with his movie The Girlfriend, which is now considered a classic of French cinema. It’s a movie that feels so timeless in the way it depicts women’s lives and the role of women in society that even half a century later, it still has something to say.

The film’s realism is a big reason why it won five Academy Awards at the 44th Annual Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director for William Friedkin. It also won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay, written by Ernest Tidyman.

It’s an unflinching portrayal of a polarized society that remains disturbingly relevant to the modern day. Its hard-hitting, no-nonsense approach to social critique sparked a wave of New Hollywood movies that were all about telling stories in new ways.

A lot of the things you see in this movie are really shocking to me, especially the way that they brutalize apparently innocent people. You have these cop characters that are so foul-mouthed, so sleazy in their language, they use racial epithets that will probably skeeve you out if you’re not used to them, but then they also come off as resolute and stubborn and willing to do what it takes to solve a case.

That’s what I like about the film is that it makes you feel uncomfortable right away, because you don’t know what to think of these guys. You have these guys who are so violent that they can actually go into bars and mug low-income people and treat them like they’re not even human. The french connection the higher the better is a movie where that contrasts really well with the way that the cops in this film do what they do.

The French Connection Hello is part of the Flashback Slate podcast and is published on Monday, January 28th, 2019. You can find more from Slate Culture Editor Tony Sokol on Twitter @tsokol.

Owen Roizman, the Oscar-nominated cinematographer whose work was seen on The French Connection and The Exorcist, died at the age of 86, according to an Instagram post from the American Society of Cinematographers.

Roizman’s career spanned more than sixty years and he was nominated for five Academy Awards, including for The French Connection. He was the president of the ASC from 1997 to 1998.

He’s a huge influence on my work and I always try to pay tribute to him in my writing.

I think that he had a great sense of style and was an excellent visual artist and the French Connection really showcases that, and there are some really striking shots in this film. I think that he really used the camera to his advantage, so when you watch this film, you see these incredible shots in the dark that would be impossible in any other movie.