Marie Monge, a Deadline One To Watch this year, received strong notices for her debut feature, Treat Me Like Fire (Joueurs) here in the Directors' Fortnight section. The film stars Tahar Rahim (A Prophet, The Looming Tower) and Stacy Martin, a breakout in Lars von Trier's Nymphomaniac. The trio visited the Deadline Can…

Marie Monge took inspiration for Directors' Fortnight selection Joueurs, her first feature, from her own experiences in the world of gambling, with a desire to "write about a very masculine world from the point of view of a woman." At the age of 22, she had a friend who was a gambler and, with him, discovered Paris's…