ANDFinally in the cinema Lee Millerbiopic about the incredible life of the great American photographer impersonated by a very good Kate Winslet. A film that tells The courage of an unconventional woman who, in the middle of the Second World War, managed to make its way as a war photojournalist in a world dominated by men. A story that makes the right tribute to Miller, but that unfortunately does not move away from such conventions.
Lee Millerthe plot of the film with Kate Winslet from today to the cinema
Independent, determined and free, Lee Miller (Winslet) is an ex -model and great passionate of photography. After an apprenticeship in Paris by the great Man Ray, in 1929, He decides to move to London leaving his prestigious circle of friends (she is a friend, muse and model of artists like Picasso): yes it is In love with the British painter and art merchant Roland Penrose (Alexander Skarsgård). The two begin a passionate relationship, just as In Europe the Second World War breaks out.
At one point gets a job for British Vogueit’s an excellent fashion photographer but would like to deal with anything else, For example, war (however women cannot occupy other photographic genres). Determined to be present where there is the action, He returns to Europe, and for exhaustion he manages to convince the director of British Vogue Audrey Withers (Andrea Riseborough) to make her become war photojournalist.
Lee thus portrays the suffering of the innocent victims of the Hitlerian regime together with the colleague of Life David Panterman (Andy Samberg, also his lover). In June 1944 photographed the fighting during the battle of Saint-Malo after the landing in Normandyunknowingly recording the first use of Napalm in war time. After the end of the conflict, Lee returns to London, married Roland, and in 1947 their only son, Antony was born.
Kate Winslet in a scene of “Lee Miller”. (Studio Canal)
Lee Millerthe review: a too conventional biopic
Inspired by the 1985 book The many lives of Lee Miller by Antony Penrose, son of Miller, The film is directed by Ellen Kurasdirector and director of photography e In the past, a collaborator of Spike Lee and Michel Gondry. Using a Flashback structure – where an elderly Lee Miller tells an unknown interviewer (the son Antony will eventually be discovered, played by Josh O’Connor) chosen songs of his life, The biopic is all too classic and without guizzi.
Writing and direction are exaggeratedly clean and aseptic, without ever daring Nor do you seek original aesthetic solution. With the result that, By renouncing an authorial imprint, the film does not differ visually from the average.
Also weighed down by some television delays, it appears a wasted opportunity. To save is the intense interpretation of Kate Winsletalso producer, actress able to restore the restless soul and the angular personality of Miller, a woman animated by a strong sense of justice e always ready to put on the side of the weakest, women And of anyone who was suffering.
Kate Winslet at the helm of the very rich cast
More than two years after Avatar – The Way of Water, Winslet finally returns to Italian cinemas with Lee Miller. A Films strongly desired by the actress together with the director Ellen Kuras who, years ago, gave Kate a copy of the book The many lives of Lee Miller.
The photographer Lee Miller in 1950. (Getty Images)
Together with Kate, in the film there is a large cast of star of European cinema: Alexander Skarsgård, Josh O’Connor (respectively husband and adult son of Lee), Helen Mirren, Toni Collette, Marion Cotillard, Noémie Merlant – These last two Lee friends during his carefree and “artistic” Parisian period.
“Lee Miller It’s my most personal movie»,, He said, “represents a fundamental chapter of my life, it is important that people see it. There was something in her as well as brave and determined that I had never seen in any of my charactersand in no woman I had known ».
We will see Kate soon in the third chapter of the saga Avatar expected for the end of 2025. While Next year his first director’s film will be released entitled Goodbye June – Stories of Three sisters who suddenly find themselves united after years of distance.
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