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Editorial Côté Brest
Published on Oct 19, 2024 at 6:00 p.m.
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Project led by Kate Winslet as actress and producer, Lee Miller is the biopic of the model and artist who became a photojournalist in a war zone. Unanimously hailed as a pioneer of her time, Lee Miller has nevertheless always refused laurels. Surly and daring, she has, throughout her career, faced the obstacles to better bypass them and only follow your instinct to find your place.
A portrait of an intense woman
Model, assistant to photographer Man Ray (active member of surrealism), free traveler and non-conformist, she convinced the magazine Vogue to go to the front when the Second World War broke out in Europe. It then nourishes a need that has become visceral: to document the war. She follows the progress of the American army and confronts the horrors of the camps, an experience from which she will not return unscathed.
Kate Winslet wanted for this film a portrait of an intense woman, that of a force of nature that misogyny has never prevented. On the production side, she entrusted the exercise to Ellen Kuras. What emerges is a film that is conventional in its structure (a nod intended or not to the old lady who recounts the past) but giving full dimension to the character that was Lee Miller for his commitment and his choices. A extraordinary destiny which the actress embodies with conviction and passion. “I had this desire to do him justice,” Kate Winslet said. It’s done!
Anaïs Briec
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