Legendary New York filmmaker Spike Lee has stated his newest joint, Highest 2 Lowest, will debut at this 12 months’s Cannes Movie Competition regardless of being left off Thierry Frémaux’s record of official choice titles this morning.
Spike posted the information on his Instagram account: “Bon Jour. Good Morning. Whaddup❓Da New SPIKE LEE JOINT-HIGHEST 2 LOWEST Starring My Brother DENZEL WASHINGTON Has Been Invited To Da 2025 CANNES INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (In The Out Of Competitors Class). AND DAT’S DA BOTTLES OF 🍾 🥂TRUTH,RUTH. YA-DIG❓SHO-NUFF.”
The caption was hooked up to an image of Highest 2 Lowest manufacturing merch, which had the customized stitching: “Highest 2 Lowest 2 Cannes.”
Discussing the movie with us on the Pink Sea Movie Competition in 2024, Lee stated Highest 2 Lowest was not a remake however a “reinterpretation” of Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 crime thriller Excessive and Low. The movie stars Denzel Washington in his fifth collaboration with Lee. The duo beforehand labored collectively on Mo’ Higher Blues, Malcolm X, He Acquired Sport, and Inside Man.
Kurosawa’s unique movie follows an government at a Yokohama shoe firm who turns into a sufferer of extortion when his chauffeur’s son is kidnapped by mistake and held for ransom.
“In Kurosawa’s movie, Toshiro Mifune is a shoemaker,” stated Lee. “In our movie, Denzel Washington is a music mogul together with his personal label and his status as the very best ears within the enterprise. So, that is the fifth movie with the dynamic duo.”
Apple Unique Movies and A24 are partnering on the undertaking, with A24 releasing the movie theatrically earlier than its world launch on AppleTV+.
Different movies set for Cannes embrace Wes Anderson’s newest flick The Phoenician Scheme, Richard Linklater will launch his Paris-shot Nouvelle Obscure, Jochim Trier debuts his newest function Sentimental Worth, and former Palme d’Or winner Julie Ducournau returns with Alpha.
Cannes will open this 12 months with Go away One Day by first-time French filmmaker Amelie Bonin. Thierry Frémaux stated this morning throughout his presser that it was the primary time a debut movie has been chosen to open the competition. Additionally hitting the Croisette for the primary time is horror auteur Ari Aster, who returns to function filmmaking together with his buzzy A24 function Eddington.
This 12 months’s competition runs Might 13 — 24.
