25/11
Miller is refused entry to Hitler’s apartment because it is “Officers Only”
Narrative
The story of American photographer Lee Miller, a fashion model who became an acclaimed war correspondent for Vogue magazine during World War II.. Based on “The Lives of Lee Miller”; the only authorized biography of Lee Miller’s life, written by her own son, Anthony Penrose, and published in 1985..
Lee Miller: [Handing a knife to a girl he just saved from rape] Next time, break it
" War correspondents were given the rank of captain, so technically the US Army Guard should have granted him admission.. The closing credits have something “what happened to”; explanations; and some of Lee’s original photographs, often alongside those that were recreated for the film.
With the rise of the Nazis seemingly unstoppable across continental Europe, Penrose spends more time on the war effort, leaving her increasingly determined to prove that she is just as capable as her male counterparts
Kate Winslet turns in quite an effective performance here as the eponymous photographer who originally arrived in London to be with husband Roland Penrose (Alexander Skarsgård) and to work for the formidable Audrey Withers (Andrea Riseborough) at Vogue “; magazine as a fashion photographer. Needless to say, there is quite a bit of resistance to her participation in combat zones, but thanks to her own perseverance and an alliance with David Scherman (Andy Samberg), she is soon actively involved in war photography and, by the end, he is visiting some of the most horrific sites ever built, seeing first-hand the truly horrific atrocities left behind by a now-defeated war machine that turned mass annihilation into an art form.
Her story is relayed from the comfort of her 1960s British home to a man we assume is just a journalist
Indeed, his obvious nervousness and her unsympathetic attitude towards him and his pregnancy seem to suggest that she sees no value in her memories, but as we develop the threads of her life, we begin to sense that there is something more between her and this young man (Josh O’Connor) who puts quite well into perspective the choices made by a woman who probably put her career first. Through the characters of Solange (Marion Cotillard) and Nusch (Noémie Merlant) the film also tries to put some meat on the bones of the story of those who had to “cooperate”; with their new masters.
Images that still make your flesh crawl
Some willingly, some less so and some, well, they didn’t live to tell. The production and fight scenes aren’t all that effective – maybe just a little too neat, the script is a little dry, and maybe it’s a little too much, but Winslet shows here that she has plenty of ability to take on a role she would it would have been easy to overwhelm him with bravado, but instead she brings a more considered charisma to her portrayal of a woman whose bloody courage provided some of the most significant images of World War II.