The wonderful, improbable Palme d’Or triumph of Hirokazu Kore-eda’s ‘Shoplifters’ at Cannes
| Film Critic | May 21, 2018 | 3:30 AM Hirokazu Kore-eda won the Palme d’Or for his film “Shoplifters” at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. (Franck Robichon/EPA-EFE/REX/Shut) On the last day of every Cannes Film Festival, word begins to leak out about which filmmakers from the competition have been called back for the closing-night awards ceremony. Many of us already knew, going into Saturday night’s show, that Pawel Pawlikowski’s “Cold War,” Alice Rohrwacher’s “Happy as Lazzaro,” Spike Lee’s “Blac…
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