Highest 2 Lowest' is in select theaters on Aug. 22 before streaming on Apple TV+ starting Sept. 5 Spike Lee thinks his new movie with longtime collaborator Denzel Washington may be their last on-screen project together.

Before the Cannes Film Festival gala premiere of Spike Lee’s Highest 2 Lowest, the audience was treated to a surprise. The festival director Thierry Frémaux came out on stage to give Denzel Washington an honorary Palme d’Or.

Among the weirdest films to premiere at this year’s Cannes Film Festival is Spike Lee ’s out-of-competition drama-thriller Highest 2 Lowest, the kind of idiosyncratic indulgence only a filmmaker of Lee’s stature is allowed.