Some of Spike Lee’s most deeply felt passions — filmmaking and the New York Knicks — have collided at the Cannes Film Festival.

Director Spike Lee presented Denzel Washington with the Honorary Palme d’Or before the screening of “Highest 2 Lowest” at the Cannes Film Festival on May 19.

Spike Lee and Denzel Washington have walked a long road together. The director and actor’s collaboration has run for 35 years, starting with “Mo’Better Blues” and including the seminal “Malcolm X.” But one thing they’ve never done is ascend the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival as comrades in arms.

Vie Privée,” a mystery about a psychotherapist who becomes convinced that her patient’s suicide was actually a murder, scored a eight-minute standing ovation at its Cannes Film Festival premiere on Tuesday night as Jodie Foster embraced director Rebecca Zlotowski after the screening.

Jodie Foster leads the French movie Vie Privée, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on May 20 At her film’s press conference in Cannes, Foster spoke about being afraid to take on leading French-speaking roles before now Jodie Foster has never had a lead film role spoken entirely in French,