Lee tells the story of ground-breaking American photographer Lee Miller (Kate Winslet – Titanic, The Reader, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), who was determined to document the truth of the Nazi regime, in spite of the odds stacked against her.
Miller, one time collabotor with surrealist artist Man Ray, defied the social expectations and rules of the time, travelling to Europe to report from the frontline – the first female war photographer of note (and, as it happens, the direct inspiration for Kirsten Dunst’s character Lee Smith in Alex Garland’s recent Civil War). There, in part as a reaction to her own well-hidden trauma, she used her Rolleiflex camera to give a voice to the voiceless.
With immense courage and artistry, Lee photographed some of the most important images of World War II, for which she paid an enormous personal price. What her puctures revealed in Dachau and throughout Europe was so shocking it helped wake up the world to the true horror of the nazi regime and haunted her for the rest of her life. Her photographs of the war, its victims and its consequences remain among the most significant and historically important of the Second World War.
Lee, produced by Kate Winslet, is the directorial debut from acclaimed cinematographer Ellen Kuras (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) and co-stars Andy Samberg, Alexander Skarsgård, Marion Cotillard, Josh O’Connor and Andrea Riseborough.