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Spike Lee and Denzel Washington Vividly Celebrate Their Own Legacies in ‘Highest 2 Lowest’

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Spike Lee’s out-of-competition drama-thriller Highest 2 Lowest premiered at the Cannes Film Festival .

Denzel Washington plays David King , the gregarious, seemingly tireless impresario of a legendary music label who is living the good life in an eye-popping penthouse with his beautiful wife, Pam (Ilfenesh Hadera ), and handsome, precocious teenage son Trey ( Aubrey Joseph ) The film opens on gleaming, overly bright shots of the DUMBO neighborhood of Brooklyn .

Highest 2 Lowest finds Lee defiant of his age and proud of it.

The film boldly reclaims the familiar Lee tics, reinstating them as features rather than bugs.

Lee confers that blessing of renewal on David , and on himself, too.

He's especially electric in a pair of scenes with A$ AP Rocky , who plays an aspiring rapper with a limber, coltish eagerness.

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