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Marie Monge shooting Treat Me Like Fire

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- Tahar Rahim and Stacy Martin topline the filmmaker’s feature debut, which is being produced by The Film and will be sold by Playtime

Marie Monge shooting Treat Me Like Fire
Director Marie Monge

Since 25 October, Marie Monge has been shooting her feature debut, Treat Me Like Fire [+see also:
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]
. Having made a splash with Marseille by Night (a 40-minute movie nominated for the César Award for Best Short Film in 2014), the director has now assembled a cast including Tahar Rahim (César Award for Best Actor in 2010 for A Prophet [+see also:
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interview: Jacques Audiard
interview: Jacques Audiard and Tahar R…
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]
, nominated for the Lumière Award for Best Actor in 2014 for Grand Central [+see also:
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interview: Rebecca Zlotowski
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]
, also popular in The Past [+see also:
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, and gracing screens recently in The Price of Success [+see also:
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interview: Teddy Lussi-Modeste
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]
), Stacy Martin (who rose to fame in Nymphomaniac I [+see also:
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interview: Louise Vesth
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]
 and II [+see also:
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, was popular in Taj Mahal [+see also:
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interview: Nicolas Saada
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 and Redoubtable [+see also:
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Q&A: Michel Hazanavicius
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]
, and who has just been performing in Amanda), Bruno Wolkowitch (from the series Spin), Karim Leklou (Best Actor at the 2015 Turin Film Festival for Heatwave [+see also:
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, delivering some fine performances in The Stopover [+see also:
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interview: Delphine and Muriel Coulin
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Toril [+see also:
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interview: Laurent Teyssier
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 and If You Saw His Heart [+see also:
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) and Marie Denarnaud (Eager BodiesJailbirds [+see also:
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]
Plonger [+see also:
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]
).

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Written by Marie Monge and Julien Guetta in conjunction with Romain Compingt, the movie tells a story of love and addiction set in the world of Parisian gambling rings.

Produced by Michaël Gentile for The Film, with David Pierret serving as associate producer, Treat Me Like Fire (which took part in the Angers Workshops) has been pre-purchased by Canal+ and Ciné+, and boasts backing from the CNC’s advance on receipts and the Ile-de-France region. The shoot will take place until 20 December, with Paul Guilhaume (Ava [+see also:
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) in charge of the cinematography. The French distribution will be handled by Bac Films and the sales by Playtime.

The Film currently has Our Happy Holiday [+see also:
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 by Patrick Cassir (starring Camille Chamoux, Jonathan Cohen, Camille Cottin, Jérémie Elkaïm and Vincent Dedienne Chamoux) in post-production, and its filmography includes such titles as Some Like it Veiled [+see also:
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by Sou AbadiThe Patience Stone [+see also:
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 by Atiq Rahimi and Espion(s) [+see also:
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 by Nicolas Saada, plus Julie Delpy’s Lolo [+see also:
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interview: Julie Delpy, Dany Boon
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 and Skylab [+see also:
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.

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