Kate Winslet gives a career best performance as model/photographer Lee Miller who became a photographer during the Second World War and took some of the most icon images of the war before quietly retiring and burying the pictures in the attic.
Told as a memory tale of Miller telling the story of her life, the film is for the most part a magnificent telling of a great life. Miller was, by all accounts a hell of a woman who did what she wanted and changed the lives of everyone around her.
In portraying Miller Winslet has found a career defining role. Big, bold and ballsy there isn’t a false note anywhere in it. Winslet inhabits the role with bravado that is rare. It is as if Miller is inhabiting Winslet.
For most of the film’s running time the film is great. It takes us places in a story that hasn’t been done to death. While it doesn’t tell everything, not that it could in a 5 hour movie, the film tells us enough that we don’t think to ask for more. The film only stumbles in the last section when the film goes to the death camps and the telling becomes a bit by the numbers.
This is a great filmmaking being used to tell a great story.
Recommended.
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