'Shoplifters' wins Palme d'Or as Spike Lee takes second place at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival
by Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
May 19, 2018
3 minutes
He sat in his seat, perfectly still, as if he couldn't believe the news. And he was not the only one surprised, as master Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda was the unexpected but very welcome winner of the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or for his "Shoplifters."
Kore-eda has been at the festival several times before, most recently with films such as "Like Father, Like Son," "After the Storm" and "Our Little Sister," but his brand of heartfelt, exquisitely modulated humanism is not
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