Lee movie storyline. Lee is the The story of photographer Elizabeth ‘Lee’ Miller, a fashion model who became an acclaimed war correspondent for Vogue magazine during World War II. The story begins in the South of France, 1938, where Lee Miller is vacationing with her dearest and closest friends who are artists, poets, and confidants. 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 their daily lives changes completely. In the midst of the blitz, Lee follows the love of her life, Roland Penrose (Alexander Skarsgård), to London, where she seeks out work as a photographer for British Vogue. Frustrated by the limitations of documenting life on the home front, Lee gains a US war accreditation and heads off to Europe. Alone.
After battling her way through the siege of Saint-Malo, Lee joins forces with close friend and fellow photographer David E. Scherman (Andy Samberg). Lee and Scherman capture the liberation of Paris. They sneak into Hitler’s abandoned Munich home — where Scherman captures Miller bathing in der 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. Lee lived her life at full throttle, for which she paid a huge emotional price. Her ferocious search for truth lifted the veil on a deeply buried secret within her own life.
Directed by legendary cinematographer Ellen Kuras, and written by Liz Hannah, John Collee, and Marion Hume, Lee has a taut, transfixing pace, with striking detail throughout. Featuring superb supporting turns from Marion Cotillard, Andrea Riseborough, and Noémie Merlant, the film 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.
Lee is a 2023 British biographical drama film directed by Ellen Kuras in her feature directorial debut, from a screenplay by Liz Hannah, John Collee and Marion Hume, and story from Hume, Collee and Lem Dobbs, adapted from the 1985 biography The Lives of Lee Miller by Antony Penrose. It stars Kate Winslet as war journalist Lee Miller. The cast includes Marion Cotillard, Andrea Riseborough, Andy Samberg, Noémie Merlant, Josh O’Connor, and Alexander Skarsgård in supporting roles.
The movie took eight years to make and, at one point, due to precarious funding, Kate Winslet (who also produced the movie) paid the entire cast and crew’s salaries for two weeks. The film made its world premiere at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival on 9 September 2023. It will be released theatrically in the United Kingdom by Sky Cinema on 13 September 2024.
Lee (2024)
Directed by: Ellen Kuras
Starring: Kate Winslet, Marion Cotillard, Andrea Riseborough, Andy Samberg, Noémie Merlant, Josh O’Connor, Alexander Skarsgård, Arinzé Kene, Samuel Barnett, Zita Hanrot, James Murray
Screenplay by: Liz Hannah, John Collee, Marion Hume
Production Design by: Gemma Jackson
Cinematography by: Paweł Edelman
Film Editing by: Mikkel E. G. Nielsen
Costume Design by: Michael O’Connor
Set Decoration by: Noelie Charles, Zsuzsa Mihalek, Lotty Sanna
Art Direction by: Bence Erdelyi, Nic Pallace, Melkior Serdarevic, Adam Squires, Zoltán Sárdi
Music by: Alexandre Desplat
MPAA Rating: R for disturbing images, language and nudity.
Distributed by: Roadside Attractions (United States)
Release Date: eptember 9, 2023 (TIFF), September 13, 2024 (United Kingdom), September 20, 2024 (United States)
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