Kate Winslet leads a terrific supporting cast in the upcoming biopic of the feted photojournalist, Lee Miller. Here’s the full trailer for Lee.
Kate Winslet’s next project is Lee, a biopic of war photographer Lee Miller. The film is set to release in September and boasts a phenomenal supporting cast that includes Andy Samberg as Life Magazine photographer David E Scherman, Alexander Skarsgård as English surrealist painter, Roland Penrose, Marion Cotillard as Solange D’Ayen, the fashion director of French Vogue and close friend of Miller’s, Josh O’Connor as Tony, a young journalist, and Andrea Riseborough as British Vogue editor Audrey Withers.
If you saw Alex Garland’s Civil War earlier this summer then you’ll know from the references to Lee MIller just how highly the photojournalist is regarded. From the trailer alone, it looks like Winslet is bringing all of her experience to bear on this Sky Original film which covers a decade of Miller’s life, including the Second World War.
It’s the feature directorial debut of cinematographer Ellen Kuras. The screenplay was written by Liz Hannah, Marion Hume and John Collee, from a story by Hume, Collee and Lem Dobbs. It’s adapted from the biography The Lives Of Lee Miller by Antony Penrose.
The synopsis reads as follows:
Lee portrays a pivotal decade in the life of American war correspondent and photographer, Lee Miller (played by Kate Winslett). Miller’s singular talent and unbridled tenacity resulted in some of the 20th century’s most indelible images of war, including an iconic photo of Miller herself, posing defiantly in Hitler’s private bathtub. Lee Miller had a profound understanding and empathy for women and for the voiceless victims of war. Her images display both the fragility and ferocity of the human experience. Above all, the film shows how Miller lived her life at full-throttle in pursuit of truth, for which she paid a huge personal price, forcing her to confront a traumatic & deeply buried secret from her childhood.
Lee will be released in UK cinemas on 13th September.
Watch the full trailer below:
