Lee

Kate Winslet has spent years trying to make a biopic about photojournalist Elizabeth ‘Lee’ Miller and now all her hard work has paid off.

In the biographical drama, directed by Ellen Kuras, Winslet plays Miller, an American former model-turned-photographer living in London during the outbreak of World War II.

She decides she must contribute to the effort in some way and goes to Europe with the U.S. Army to document the war for British Vogue.

During her time as the magazine’s war correspondent, Miller took photos of the liberation of Paris and the concentration camps. Witnessing some of these atrocities took a toll on her mental health and she resorted to pills and alcohol to numb her PTSD.

Lee is a relatively conventional wartime biopic. You know what you’re going to get and it doesn’t show much of what we haven’t seen before. Even still, the harrowing scenes in the extermination camps are hard to take and very moving.

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