Legendary New York filmmaker Spike Lee has mentioned his newest joint, Highest 2 Lowest, will debut at this yr’s Cannes Movie Competition regardless of being left off Thierry Frémaux’s checklist of official 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 mentioned 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 Obtained Sport, and Inside Man.
Kurosawa’s authentic movie follows an govt 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,” mentioned Lee. “In our movie, Denzel Washington is a music mogul together with his personal label and his status as one of the best ears within the enterprise. So, that is the fifth movie with the dynamic duo.”
Apple Authentic Movies and A24 are partnering on the venture, with A24 releasing the movie theatrically earlier than its international 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 Imprecise, Jochim Trier debuts his newest function Sentimental Worth, and former Palme d’Or winner Julie Ducournau returns with Alpha.
Cannes will open this yr with Depart One Day by first-time French filmmaker Amelie Bonin. Thierry Frémaux mentioned this morning throughout his presser that it was the primary time a debut movie has been chosen to open the pageant. 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 yr’s pageant runs Could 13 — 24.
