"But then my bags got lost and then we got stuck in an elevator for 20 minutes. "Patti Cake$" is a bittersweet comedy about Patricia Dombrowski, a plus-size white girl from New Jersey, who goes by the aliases Killa P and Patti Cake$ and dreams that a flair for rapping will be her ticket out of poverty. For Jasper, who wrote the film based on his own experiences in hiphop in New Jersey, bringing his first feature film to Cannes has been an exhausting, exhilarating experience. The Cannes Film Festival ends on Sunday. (This article has not been edited by DNA's editorial team and is auto-generated from an agency feed.)

Source: dna May 27, 2017 16:52 UTC