There were a lot of winners at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. The top prize went to Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda for his movie Shoplifters, “a moving portrait of an self-made family scraping by at the bottom of Japanese society.” Although the Palme d’Or isn’t a reliable awards barometer like the people’s choice award at TIFF, it still gives a movie a level of recognition … Continue reading ‘Shoplifters’ Wins Palme d’Or at Cannes While Grand Prix Goes to Spike Lee’s ‘BlacKkKlansman’!!