Lee
Biopic starring Kate Winslet in the role of Lee Miller, a woman who, after a successful career as a model and fashion icon, fearlessly went to work as a war photographer during World War II.
The story begins in the South of France, 1938, where Lee Miller is vacationing. A former model and subject of the avant-garde photographer Man Ray, Lee, now tired of being viewed through a lens by men, is focused exclusively on her own work as a photographer. The threat of war looms and almost overnight everything about her life changes completely. In the midst of the blitz, Lee follows the love of her life, Roland Penrose, to London, where she seeks out work as a photographer for British Vogue. Frustrated by the limitations on the home front, Lee gains a US war accreditation and heads off to Europe. She joins forces with close friend and fellow photographer David E. Scherman. Lee and Scherman capture the liberation of Paris. They sneak into Hitler’s abandoned Munich home – where Scherman captures Miller bathing in the Führer’s tub. They are among the first photographers to enter the camps at Buchenwald and Dachau on the day of the liberation, where Lee crafts a series of horrifying, urgent images that will sear themselves into history.
Directed by legendary cinematographer Ellen Kuras – who worked with directors like Michel Gondry, Spike Lee, Jim Jarmusch and Martin Scorsese – LEE is a vivid reminder of the bold women who fought to penetrate male-dominated spaces – making great sacrifices and ultimately changing the way we see the world. (source: www.tiff.net)