Film Music Reporter

Gaumont will release a soundtrack album for the French crime thriller The Connection (La French). The album features the film’s original score composed by Guillaume Roussel (3 Days to Kill, Outcast). Also included are the songs from the movie by artists including The Velvet Underground, Sheila, Lykke Li, Blondie, Venus Gang, Al Wilson, Robert Moore, Kim Wilde and Townes Van Zandt. The soundtrack will be released digitally on November 25, 2014. The Connection is directed by Cédric Jimenez and stars Jean Dujardin, Gilles Lellouche, Céline Sallette and Benoît Magimel. The movie tells the story of French police magistrate Pierre Michel, who waged an obsessive six-year battle to bring down Marseilles’ infamous “French Connection” drug ring. The thriller premiered at this year’s Toronto Film Festival and will be released in France on December 3. Drafthouse Films has picked up domestic distribution rights.

Here’s the album track list:

1. Bang Bang – Sheila (3:13)
2. Jerome (iTunes Session) – Lykke Li (3:14)
3. Affaire personnelle (1:18)
4. Flash and Crash – Rocky And The Riddlers (2:47)
5. Comic Strip – Serge Gainsbourg (2:10)
6. La pieuvre (2:35)
7. Meurtre du fou (1:48)
8. C’est comme ça que je t’aime – Mike Brant (3:20)
9. Ces bottes sont faites pour marcher (feat. Delphine Gardin) – Yéyévollegaz (2:37)
10. Love to Fly – Venus Gang (4:08)
11. Call Me – Blondie (3:30)
12. I’m Set Free – The Velvet Underground (4:03)
13. Everything’s Gonna Be Alright – Robert Moore (2:38)
14. The Snake – Al Wilson (3:28)
15. Au fond du trou (2:18)
16. Annabel’s (0:42)
17. Cambodia – Kim Wilde (3:57)
18. This Bitter Earth / On the Nature of Daylight – Dinah Washington, Max Richter (6:15)
19. Waitin’ Around to Die – Townes Van Zandt (2:42)
20. Epilogue (2:42)