First-time feature director Marie Monge brings her terrific drama-thriller Joueurs to the Directors Fortnight section of Cannes. The English title she has attached to it is Treat Me Like Fire. Actually, I think the simple translation Players is better.
Its an old-school lowlife adventure in the Paris underworld of gambling, co-written by Romain Compingt and Julien Guetta with Monge herself, clearly inspired at one level by Jacques Audiard, and further back by movies such as Melvilles Bob Le Flambeur and Godards Bande à Part. Theres also a classic tour-guide sequence around the illegal casino, with clued-in narrative voiceover, the camera roaming around and noticing all the scams and dodges going on, invisible to the outsider: maybe a …
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