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Lion Babe announced a U.S. tour behind their newly released second LP, Cosmic Wind. The summer trek launches June 5th in Brooklyn, New York and wraps June 25th in Chicago, Illinois.

Some venue information is available on Facebook. Tickets go on sale Friday, April 5th at their website.

Cosmic Wind, which follows the R&B duo’s 2016 debut, Begin, includes the singles “The Wave” and the Raekwon-featured “Western World,” which interpolates the hook from Pet Shop Boys’ 1984 hit “West End Girls.” For the latter track, they issued a...

Cyrano De Bergerac director Jean-Paul Rappeneau will attend the London screening of the film.

The French Film Festival UK - which will screen at 30 cinemas across the country when it opens this week - has announced further guests who will be in attendance.

Gilles Lelouche will be at London's Ciné Lumière on November 9 for the screening of feel-good drama Sink Or Swim. Tonie Marshall will also attend Ciné Lumière on November 7, to present Woman Up!, which shows a woman's struggle in the corporate world.

First-time director Marie Monge will attend the Edinburgh Filmhouse screening of Treat Me Like Fire on November 13 and Laetitia Carton will be at the screening of documentary Le Grand Bal at Edinburgh Summerhall on December 4, which will feature a post-screening dance event to echo the film's themes.

As previously announced, Cyrano De Bergerac director Jean-Paul Rappeneau will also attend the London Ciné Lumière screening of the film on November 14.

Festival director.

Sink Or Swim Photo: Mika Cotellon The French Film Festival - which runs from November 7 to December 16 at cinemas across the country - has announced its line-up.

The festival, which has announced will screen films from across the Francophone world, will feature the latest films from established names - including Jean-Luc Godard's The Image Book, Jean Becker's The Red Collar and Christophe Honoré's Sorry Angel - as well as new directors. The up-and-comers in the Discovery Horizons section include Marie Monge’s thriller Treat Me Like Fire, Hubert Charuel’s Bloody Milk and Dany, which is the directorial debut of actor François Damiens.

Other films screening include Gilles Lelouche's crowdpleaser Sink Or Swim - based on the same real-life story as UK production Swimming With Men - and Stéphane Brizé's At War, starring Vincent Lindon.

Festival director Richard Mowe said: “Serendipity and, of course, careful planning has...

Deadline’s portrait and video studio at the Cannes Film Festival kicked off eight talent-filled days on the Croisette with visits by Arctic director Joe Penna and actors Mads Mikkelsen and Maria Thelma Smaradottir; Michael Shannon and Sofia Boutella from HBO’s Fahrenheit 451; and Tahar Rahim from Treat Me Like Fire. Also stopping by the studio for our series of photo sessions and video interviews taking place at Villa Ah were Tom Bernard of Sony Pictures Classics; Pope Francis: A Man of His Word director Wim Wenders; and many more. Photographs by Michael Buckner. Click on the photo to view the gallery, and follow Deadline for more photos and video interviews from Cannes 2018.

Launch Gallery: Deadline Studio at Cannes 2018 - Part 1 - Michael Shannon, Sofia Boutella, Mads Mikkelsen & More...

The prizes for Cannes' Directors’ Fortnight sidebar were awarded Thursday evening, with Gaspar Noe's sex-and-drugs drama Climax taking the Art Cinema Award from among the 17 films in competition.

This year’s selections had some big-name directors competing, with Oscar nominee Ciro Guerra’s Summer Birds, Cesar winner Philippe Faucon’s Amin and Marie Monge's Treat Me Like Fire in the running.

The Sacd Prize, awarded to a French-language film, went to Pierre Salvarori's unconventional cop caper The Trouble With You (En Liberte), starring Cesar winner Adele Haenel.

The Europa Cinemas award, which is dedicated to promotion, distribution and exhibition of a ...

The prizes for Cannes' Directors’ Fortnight sidebar were awarded Thursday evening, with Gaspar Noe's sex-and-drugs drama Climax taking the Art Cinema Award from among the 17 films in competition.

This year’s selections had some big-name directors competing, with Oscar nominee Ciro Guerra’s Summer Birds, Cesar winner Philippe Faucon’s Amin and Marie Monge's Treat Me Like Fire in the running.

The Sacd Prize, awarded to a French-language film, went to Pierre Salvarori's unconventional cop caper The Trouble With You (En Liberte), starring Cesar winner Adele Haenel.

The Europa Cinemas award, which is dedicated to promotion, distribution and exhibition of a ...

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 and Stacy Martin, a breakout in Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac. The trio visited the Deadline Cannes Studio to discuss the film’s themes of addiction and the challenges of leaving intense experiences on set.

Martin is Ella, whose life is turned upside down when she meets Abel (Rahim). Irresistibly drawn to this elusive lover, the young woman discovers the cosmopolitan underground world of Paris’s gaming circles, where adrenaline and money reign supreme. Their love story begins as a mere bet, but turns into a devouring passion.

Monge wrote the part of Ella with Martin in mind and the actress says, “I fell in love with it. Her tenacity as a director,...

Le Pacte has closed a flurry of deals to major markets on a pair of buzzed-about French comedies, Patrick Cassir’s “Our Happy Holiday” and Thomas Lilti’s “The Freshmen” at Cannes’s film market.

“The Freshmen” reteams Lilti with French actor Vincent Lacoste who toplined “Hippocrate,” Lilti’s feature debut which world premiered at Cannes’s Critics Week and turned out to be a critical and commercial success in France and abroad.

Le Pacte hosted four market screenings for the film at Cannes and has now sold it to Italy (Movies inspired), Canada (Eye Steel Film), Switzerland (Filmcoopi), Austria (Thimfilm) and Benelux (Athena), Colombia, Peru and Ecuador (Cineplex), Central America (Cinepolis).

Camille Neel, Le Pacte’s head of international sales, said Lilti’s last film, “Irreplaceable” sold 1.6 million admissions in France and 1.2 million abroad. “Lilti has become popular among foreign buyers thanks to his great track record — both ‘Hippocrate” and ‘Irreplaceable’ have been successful,...

His name is Abel, and he’s played by Tahar Rahim (“A Prophet”), exuding twinkling, dirty, stubbled charisma. He’s an incorrigible gambler and a con man on first-name terms with the wrong kind of people — vicious debt collectors and bouncers in underground gambling dens. He is bad news. But for Ella (Stacy Martin) the hardworking, capable and perhaps slightly uptight manager of her father’s popular local bistro, he’s the best kind of bad news, and while he might end up making you sadder, he’ll also make you smarter, savvier and, frankly, sexier. French director Marie Monge’s native country may have coined the term “film noir,” and there may be more than a dash of Audiard to her debut, but “Treat Me Like Fire” is best considered in the context of the lowlife-ridden cinema of 1970s Hollywood, in which the arc of every star-crossed relationship tends inevitably toward betrayal.

Tahar Rahim and Stacy Martin star in the story of a Parisian waitress drawn into a desperate underworld of addiction by a charismatic parasite

First-time feature director Marie Monge brings her terrific drama-thriller Joueurs to the Director’s 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.

It’s 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 Melville’s Bob Le Flambeur and Godard’s Bande à Part. There’s 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 little of Ocean’s Eleven here.

Out of all the guys in Paris, Ella — Stacy Martin’s waifish heroine at the heart of the romantic thriller Treat Me Like Fire (Joueurs) — definitely picked the worst one.

Sure, Abel (A Prophet star Tahar Rahim) is handsome and extremely charming when he wants to be, but he’s also a gambling addict and compulsive liar who leads Ella down a rabbit hole of terrible decisions. Together, the two are like Bonnie and Clyde without the guns and glamour, betting it all in clandestine Parisian casinos and illegal demolition derbies, living for the moment but indebting themselves to some...

Out of all the guys in Paris, Ella — Stacy Martin’s waifish heroine at the heart of the romantic thriller <em>Treat Me Like Fire</em> (<em>Joueurs</em>) — definitely picked the worst one.

Sure, Abel (<em>A Prophet</em> star Tahar Rahim) is handsome and extremely charming when he wants to be, but he’s also a gambling addict and compulsive liar who leads Ella down a rabbit hole of terrible decisions. Together, the two are like Bonnie and Clyde without the guns and glamour, betting it all in clandestine Parisian casinos and illegal demolition derbies, living for the moment but indebting themselves to some ...

Writer-director Marie Monge brings a tale of bad choices to the screen in Treat Me Like Fire — her first feature since being nominated for a Cesar for her short film Marseille by Night in 2012 — which premieres Friday in the Directors’ Fortnight.

A story of love, addiction and addiction to love, the film has a different title in French, the fairly innocuous Joueurs, meaning “players,” which can have a double meaning. But while Monge chose both titles, she says Fire, which suggests the desperation and kinetic energy in the movie, “is more accurate about what the film is”...

The 50th edition of Directors’ Fortnight, the section running parallel to the Cannes Film Festival, will open with Colombian directors Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego’s “Birds of Passage.”

The lavishly shot “Birds of Passage,” which marks Guerra’s follow-up to his Oscar-nominated “Embrace of the Serpent,” takes place in Colombia in the 1970s, when the demand for marijuana hits Colombia, quickly turning farmers into seasoned businessmen. Unfolding in the Guajira desert, “Birds of Passage” follows a Wayuu indigenous family who take a leading role in this new drug trade and discover the perks of wealth and power but also encounter violence and tragedy.

Edouard Waintrop, who is serving his last turn as Directors’ Fortnight chief, said he was particularly happy to welcome back Guerra, who had presented “Embrace of the Serpent” in 2015. “‘Birds of Passage’ is a magnificent film and a powerful, epic mafia story filled with crime and treason,...

Noé, Faucon and Rosales feature in 50th anniversary edition marked by strong Hispanic, French presence.

Gaspar Noé’s Climax, Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego’s Birds of Passage, and Mamoru Hosoda’s feature animation Mirai are among the features that will premiere in the 50th anniversary edition of Directors’ Fortnight this year.

Artistic director Edouard Waintrop unveiled his final selection, ahead of his departure this autumn, at a press conference at the Forum des Images in Paris on Tuesday (April 17). The 50th edition line-up – running May 9-19 - comprises 20 features and another 11 short films.

“I would like to thank the...

Update: Outgoing Directors’ Fortnight chief Edouard Waintrop revealed a 20-strong 50th anniversary lineup today that includes a return engagement for some, and a surprise inclusion for one of the most controversial filmmakers ever to hit the Croisette. Gaspar Noé will world premiere his Climax, appearing for the first time in the section after turns in Official Selection with such films as Love, Enter The Void and Irreversible. Climax has been kept close to the vest, with some conflicting information circulating (we will update when we know more).

The Fortnight will open with Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra’s Birds Of Passage. The 1970s-set film about the early days of the drug trade is a return to the section for Guerra whose 2015 Embrace Of The Serpent became Colombia’s first Foreign Language Oscar nominee.

Also notable on the roster are Guillaume Nicloux’s Les Confins Du Monde. His Valley Of Love...