Lee Miller- movie review

The film about Lee Miller's life, starring Kate Winslet, is in cinemas now. Considering the protagonist's unconventional life, it's not a light-hearted film, but it's an interesting one.

Lee Miller was born in New York in 1907. In 1927, by chance, he started modeling for Vogue, because one day in New York, he carelessly stepped off the sidewalk and was only not hit by a car because an unknown man pulled him back. The stranger was Condé Nast, the owner of Vogue. The man looked at the frightened girl, who was, incidentally, dressed in French fashion and was beautiful. He immediately offered her a job at the magazine, and she was on the cover within a month. In 1928 he went to Paris and approached Man Ray, the greatest photographer of the day. He began to photograph her, but also treated her as his apprentice, teaching her the art of photography. They lived together for three years and developed a tempestuous love affair. Lee was often photographed completely naked, and it is said that one of these pictures was later used by a French champagne company to model their latest champagne glasses on Lee's breasts.

Lee Miller

Over the next few years, Lee did more and more photography, and in 1934, she married an Egyptian man and moved to Cairo. She gave up work temporarily, but life was so boring for her that she left Egypt and returned to Paris with a man called Penrose, who became her wife after the war.

In 1939, at the outbreak of the war, she signed up with Vogue, offering to take pictures of the fighting. Although initially rejected, she soon became the group's first female war correspondent. She photographed London and visited France, but her most harrowing experience was probably the one in Saint-Malo after D-Day. They thought the attacks were over when they were in the middle of them.

In 1945 he visited several concentration camps and took photographs immediately after their liberation. On the day Hitler committed suicide in his bunker, Lee was photographed by a colleague in Munich sitting in Hitler's bathtub and bathing.

Lee Miller in Hitler's bathtub

Afterwards, he photographed in Vienna and Hungary, mostly of the destruction caused by the war.

After the war, he married, had a son, and lived a retired life in the English countryside.

When she died in 1977 at the age of 70, her only son was still unaware of his mother's early life. A few years later, by chance, he found an old suitcase in their attic full of photographs taken by his mother. He then began to process the story, which later became a book and a movie, Lee Miller, starring Kate Winslet.

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