Lee Miller had an extraordinary life and this film more than does her justice.
Lee Miller’s life was so extraordinary that no film could take it all in. Wisely, Kate Winslet’s new film,It focuses on Miller’s most transformative years with a deftness that illuminates a time when the world went mad while giving a fully realised portrait of a woman whose prickly obstinacy became both her glory and her curse.model who became part of the set that clustered around the photographer Man Ray and his fellow surrealists in the 1930s.
When Miller finally gives in to Antony and the flashbacks begin, we’re transported to 1938 in the south of France where she is enjoying a life of sunny hedonism with a group of her closest friends. Lunching on the grass with her are the surrealist poet, Paul Eluard and his wife, Nusch , together with Solange d’Ayen , the fashion editor ofThey’re all about to be swept up in the war as French Resistance workers, but war is the last thing on their minds for the moment.
Later, back in London, now suffering under the Blitz, Miller talks Audrey Withers ,’s innovative editor, into assigning her to war stories – a course that will eventually lead her and her friend, Davy Scherman ,magazine’s correspondent, to cover the liberation of Paris. And from there, the two produce a revelatory series of photographs recording the horrors of Buchenwald and Dachau concentration camps – hence Miller’s unwillingness to revisit her memories in later life.
But these are minor complaints. The casting is inspired. Cotillard elevates her small role with a scene of devastating poignancy. Samberg, an unlikely choice, given his credentials as a comedian, slips effortlessly into the role of Scherman. And Riseborough’s Withers is an intriguing mixture of old-fashioned politesse and steely resolve in her dogged desire to make her magazine’s war coverage count.
Finally, Winslet’s Miller is a powerhouse – brave, difficult, tough and outraged by injustice. She’s not easy company, but her integrity is never in doubt. She’s a fascinating character in a film that eloquently does her justice.
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