How a Single Phone Call Led to Spike Lee and Denzel Washington’s Fifth Film
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Inspired by a thriller by Akira Kurosawa, the filmmaker and his fetish actor, Denzel Washington, take stock of their rise through a film whose protagonist is a music magnate.

In Highest 2 Lowest, available this Friday on Apple TV+, Spike Lee is studying the music industry and the relationship to money. In this New York thriller, in which he directs Denzel Washington and A$AP Rocky, a producer who is considered to have "the best ears of the profession" is the target of a ransom demand that gives rise to a moral dilemma, between life and death.
Spike Lee has transformed Akira Kurosawa's nerve-wracking thriller "Heaven and Hell" into a contemporary kidnapping drama in New York that raises a poignant moral question. A stylish, colorful and street-smart film with a masterful opening but a rather pointed ending.
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