Winslet strongly conveys Miller’s tough-broad magnetism in this sobering, visually striking drama by cinematographer turned director Ellen Kuras
‘A woman’s-eye view of a photographer who cast a woman’s eye over the war and its aftermath’: Kate Winslet as Lee Miller in Lee.‘A woman’s-eye view of a photographer who cast a woman’s eye over the war and its aftermath’: Kate Winslet as Lee Miller in Lee.– understood the vulnerability of being a woman in front of a camera. A model since childhood , Miller learned about photography from both sides of the lens.
This sobering, serious-minded partial biopic, which focuses on Miller’s stint as a war correspondent during the second world war, makes a case that her insight into the power dynamics of photography contributed to. Her status as both a victim and a survivor brought her an unusual empathy with her subjects.
But Winslet’s performance goes deeper than the “drinking, fucking and taking photographs” that Miller lists as her core skillset at the film’s opening, which unfolds at a bohemian pool party in France on the brink of war. She balances the tough-cookie determination that took Miller to a frontline that was, nominally at least, off-limits to women, with a sense of the psychological injuries she accrued.
The film’s soundtrack, however, is less successful. The score, by Alexandre Desplat, is a bustling, busy orchestral mulch, so generic that it might as well have been pulled out of a drawer marked “prestige period pieces”. When so much elsewhere in the picture makes such an effort to tap into the distinctive and highly unusual character of
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