Lee Miller biopic with Kate Winslet

Alex Benjamin · Sep 17, 2024

Anybody seen it?

Review in The Guardian:

Lee review – Kate Winslet is remarkable as model turned war photographer Lee Miller

Winslet strongly conveys Miller’s tough-broad magnetism in this sobering, visually striking drama by cinematographer turned director Ellen Kuras

www.theguardian.com

Trailer:

koraks · Sep 17, 2024

Nope, not yet. And based on the trailer, I doubt I'm going to get it queued on the watchlist my wife and I maintain. Looks a tad too 'Hollywoodized' to my taste, let alone hers.

Alan Edward Klein · Sep 17, 2024

Just coincidentally, I watched this biopic on her last night on YouTube. Very good. She was a very talented and beautiful woman with a fascinating, creative, and daring life as a war correspondent during WWII, photographer, and model. Worth watching. YOu may have to reset it from the beginning.

Alex Benjamin · Sep 17, 2024

Alan Edward Klein said:
Just coincidentally, I watched this biopic on her last night on YouTube. Very good. She was a very talented and beautiful woman with a fascinating, creative, and daring life as a war correspondent during WWII, photographer, and model. Worth watching. YOu may have to reset it from the beginning.

Thanks for the link, Alan.

CMoore · Sep 17, 2024

One of my favorite shutter snappers.

I hope this is accurate.
The truth never seems to be good enough for "Hollywood"

miha · Sep 17, 2024

I had the opportunity to attend her retrospective exhibition in 2011, and it was remarkably extensive, covering a broad range of her work.

LEGENDARY LEE MILLER

The photographer Lee Miller (1907–1977) began her career as a muse and a collaborator of the Surrealist photographer Man Ray in Paris. Her photographs have earned her a key place in the history of art. "Legendary Lee Miller", the retrospective exhibition of 96 Lee's original photographs...

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Alex Benjamin · Sep 17, 2024

CMoore said:
The truth never seems to be good enough for "Hollywood"

"This is the West, Sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend."

cliveh · Sep 17, 2024

Lee Miller was a superb printer.

jvo · Sep 18, 2024

Saw the movie, which was very worthwhile - well written, good acting... before that saw the huge "The Woman Who Broke Boundaries: Photographer Lee Miller" show at the Dali Museum... she was amazing.

pentaxuser · Sep 19, 2024

miha said:
I had the opportunity to attend her retrospective exhibition in 2011, and it was remarkably extensive, covering a broad range of her work.

LEGENDARY LEE MILLER

The photographer Lee Miller (1907–1977) began her career as a muse and a collaborator of the Surrealist photographer Man Ray in Paris. Her photographs have earned her a key place in the history of art. "Legendary Lee Miller", the retrospective exhibition of 96 Lee's original photographs...

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Yes I went to that one and agree with your description. Seeing the video reminded me that Lee Miler - A Life on the Front Line was shown on BBC in the last few years and very good it was but is sadly no longer available

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cowanw · Sep 27, 2024

The movie opened in Canada last night. I thought it was a terrific movie, great performances. I don't know about it being too Hollywood, it's not a Busby Berkely Musical, but it took 8 years to find funding. If nobody goes to see it, it will be a 108 years before the next movie about a photographer.
Well worth going.

Radost · Dec 1, 2024

Sirius Glass · Dec 2, 2024

Thank you for the interesting interview.

Arthurwg · Dec 2, 2024

Aside from the fascinating subject I didn't think it was a very good film. Among other things I don't think KW was well cast. Anyway, it should have started with her career in modeling, which makes her transition to hard-bitten photojournalist much more interesting.

BTW, I don't think there's a definitive monograph of her pictures, is there?

Pieter12 · Dec 2, 2024

Arthurwg said:
Aside from the fascinating subject I didn't think it was a very good film. Among other things I don't think KW was well cast. Anyway, it should have started with her career in modeling, which makes her transition to hard-bitten photojournalist much more interesting.

BTW, I don't think there's a definitive monograph of her pictures, is there?

It sort of started there, just did not show her modeling, more the care-free life she enjoyed. It did not show how she crossed over behind the camera either, the only hint was when she showed her portfolio at Vogue. Stories needn't be too literal, spoon-feeding everything along the way. There is just so much time to tell the story. Winslet, the writer and the director wanted to concentrate on the WWII timeframe. Something she apparently did not share with her son.

Arthurwg · Dec 2, 2024

Pieter12 said:
It sort of started there, just did not show her modeling, more the care-free life she enjoyed. It did not show how she crossed over behind the camera either, the only hint was when she showed her portfolio at Vogue. Stories needn't be too literal, spoon-feeding everything along the way. There is just so much time to tell the story. Winslet, the writer and the director wanted to concentrate on the WWII timeframe. Something she apparently did not share with her son.

I do think a 5 min sequence could have handled it, and that it was essential. And KW? She's no LM.

Arthurwg · Dec 2, 2024

cliveh said:
Lee Miller was a superb printer.

I think she was taught by Man Ray.

GregY · Dec 2, 2024

Arthurwg said:
I think she taught by Man Ray.

Indeed, Lee was Man Ray's model, darkroom assistant and love interest. A life well worth reading about.
Several thorough biographies....

Arthurwg · Dec 2, 2024

I think she was also credited with discovering "solarization" by accidentally turning on a light in the darkroom.

Pieter12 · Dec 2, 2024

Arthurwg said:
I do think a 5 min sequence could have handled it, and that it was essential. And KW? She's no LM.

What does that mean? As a photographer? Of course not. As a person? Miller was a reckless alchoholic who ignored her only child. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/mar/19/lee-miller-the-mother-i-never-knew

Pieter12 · Dec 2, 2024

Arthurwg said:
I think she was also credited with discovering "solarization" by accidentally turning on a light in the darkroom.

Solarization is the intentional overexposure of a negative that renders a partially positive image. What Lee Miller accidentally produced in Man Ray's darkroom was the Sabatier effect, sometimes known as pseudo-solarization. It had been described well before then, around 1860.

Arthurwg · Dec 3, 2024

Pieter12 said:
Solarization is the intentional overexposure of a negative that renders a partially positive image. What Lee Miller accidentally produced in Man Ray's darkroom was the Sabatier effect, sometimes known as pseudo-solarization. It had been described well before then, around 1860.

Yes, you are right about that.

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