Sean Bean (Game of Thrones), Jennifer Jason Leigh (The Hateful Eight), and Stacy Martin (Nymphomaniac Vol. 1 & 2) have joined Andrea Riseborough and Christopher Abbott in Brandon Cronenberg's (Antiviral) sophomore feature Possessor. The film is slated to begin production in April 2019 and will shoot on location in…

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…

After reminding us how powerful and moving the silent cinema can be with his 2011 five-time-Oscar-winning film The Artist, Michel Hazanavicius ambitiously took on the task of making a comedic biopic of France’s living cinema legend and absurdist Jean-Luc Godard (who Isabelle Huppert pointed out at the Cannes Film Festi…

EXCLUSIVE: French actress and model Stacy Martin has signed with WME following her breakthrough turn in Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac: Vol. I and II opposite Shia LaBeouf. The daring and baring performance saw Martin playing the younger version of Charlotte Gainsbourg’s “Joe,” the titular woman with an unquenchable…