Lee
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Former fashion model; muse, lover and creative collaborator of the surrealist artist Man Ray; key member of a social circle that included the poet Paul Éluard and the artists Picasso and Jean Cocteau; a successful photographer: Lee Miller had already lived several decades worth of experiences by the time this fascinating biopic trains its lens on her life in the run-up to the Second World War. The first feature film from cinematographer Ellen Kuras is a satisfyingly textured portrait of a remarkable and unusual woman, who had an almost Zelig-like gift for bearing witness to key moments in history.
Miller (Kate Winslet, who also produced) is good at “drinking, fucking and taking photographs,” and does all of them to excess. But the worldly and rather jaded Miller is now looking for meaning to anchor an uncertain existence. And with Europe in turmoil and the war about to ignite across the continent, photographing the frontline of combat seems to be the most effective way of channeling her skillset and her unusually fearless approach to life.
