Last month, Spike Lee announced that his next film would premiere at the Cannes festival. Because that moment has almost arrived, we can now count on a first teaser from the newcomer. Where John David Washington shone in Blackkklansman, the pronounced maker can enter Highest 2 Lowest (2025) Again have his experienced father.
A matter of integrity
“Denzel and Spike are back for collaboration number 5”, reads the introtext under the newly revealed teaser. The Apple and A24 produced Highest 2 Lowest revolves around a greatness in the music world that becomes the target of a extortion plot. Does he manage to keep a cool head in these circumstances and to keep his integrity?
Fifth cooperation
Na Mo’ Better Blues (1990) Malcolm X (1992), He Got Game (1998) in Inside Man (2006) So Spike Lee is working for the fifth time with Denzel Washington, who was still shown in cinema cracker this fall Gladiator II (2024). The uplifting sounds of a James Brown-Track guide the actor and Spike Lee in optima forma:
The title Highest 2 Lowest is an allusion to a crime mystery from the sixties, the Japanese High and Low (1963). This film is not only about the crime story, but especially about the moral dilemmas that the main character is plagued by. From the description of Lee’s newest we deduce that the maker has a similar approach in mind, but in a contemporary environment: the Metropool New York. In addition to Washington, Jeffrey Wright, artist A $ AP Rocky and Ilfenesh Hadera can also be seen in the film.
In the United States Highest 2 Lowest After the premiere in Cannes on August 22 in the cinemas, after which on 5 september All the on demand release follows on Apple TV+. Subscribers can therefore count on it that they can stream the crime film in a few months. Details of a possible Dutch cinema release are not yet known.
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