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Lee

The film follows Lee Miller (Kate Winslet) on her breathless campaign through Europe, her mission is driven by hatred, contempt, ambition, and empathy in equal measure: to show the world what it’s really like with her Rolleiflex.

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Ellen Kuras’ feature film isn’t about Lee Miller, in demand model and muse – LEE is about her iconic images of war: the London air raid wardens with their surrealist gas masks, the silk stockings hanging to dry in the window of a barrack for British female soldiers, the soldier Kurt, completely bandaged in white except for his eyes - "beautiful eyes" says Lee (Kate Winslet) - in a military hospital in Normandy. The screenplay follows Miller’s breathless campaign across Europe, her mission equally fueled by hatred, contempt, ambition, and empathy: to show the world what it is with her Rolleiflex.

This film that keeps us at a distance in the cinema is precise and discreet. Just like the photographer focuses on the image of her object in the camera, not the object itself, we too see a scene (precisely recreated based on a photo) not as real, but as a collage of photographs as they appeared in Vogue and the images staged for the film. Out of respect for the victims, this is how events are told: when Miller climbs up the wagon that was standing in front the Dachau concentration camp for days, with hundreds of dead people who starved and died of thirst, we in the cinema are left out. The horror in the face of the corpses is silent, best reflected in Winslet's face, which is frozen as if to ward off evil.

In such moments, the actress is fantastic, also when she’s allowed to be gruff, laconic, or flirty and hard-drinking. However, her fear of revealing her compassion is not so easy for her. But in this she is like Lee Miller, who after the war, when everything was over and yet nothing was over - because the images remained in her mind - had a serious nervous breakdown. And she never talked about this period. The interview with her son, which frames the film, never existed. And she packed away the photos.

Elisabeth Bauschmid

Translation: Elinor Lewy

Credits

Original title: Lee
Großbritannien 2023, 116 min
Genre: Drama, Biography, War Film
Director: Ellen Kuras
Author: Liz Hannah, John Collee, Marion Hume
DOP: Pawel Edelman
Montage: Mikkel Nielsen
Music: Alexandre Desplat
Distributor: STUDIOCANAL
Cast: Kate Winslet, Alexander Skarsgård, Andrea Riseborough, Marion Cotillard, Josh O'Connor, Andy Samberg
FSK: 12
Release: 19.09.2024

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  • OV Original version
  • OmU Original with German subtitles
  • OmeU Original with English subtitles
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Lee

(Lee) | Großbritannien 2023 | Drama, Biography, War Film | R: Ellen Kuras | FSK: 12 | Interview

The film follows Lee Miller (Kate Winslet) on her breathless campaign through Europe, her mission is driven by hatred, contempt, ambition, and empathy in equal measure: to show the world what it’s really like with her Rolleiflex.

Screenings

Adlershof

Casablanca

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TicketsReservation: http://www.casablanca-berlin.de/tickets.html 18:00

15.10. – Tue

TicketsReservation: http://www.casablanca-berlin.de/tickets.html 15:45

Charlottenburg

Delphi LUX

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OV11:45

TicketsReservation: https://www.yorck.de/kinos/delphi-lux OV21:30

14.10. – Mon

TicketsReservation: https://www.yorck.de/kinos/delphi-lux OV21:30

15.10. – Tue

TicketsReservation: https://www.yorck.de/kinos/delphi-lux OV21:30

16.10. – Wed

TicketsReservation: https://www.yorck.de/kinos/delphi-lux OV21:30

Dahlem

Capitol

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14:30

14.10. – Mon

TicketsReservation: https://www.yorck.de/kinos/capitol-dahlem 14:30

TicketsReservation: https://www.yorck.de/kinos/capitol-dahlem 20:15

15.10. – Tue

TicketsReservation: https://www.yorck.de/kinos/capitol-dahlem 14:30

16.10. – Wed

TicketsReservation: https://www.yorck.de/kinos/capitol-dahlem 14:30

TicketsReservation: https://www.yorck.de/kinos/capitol-dahlem 20:15

Friedrichshagen

Union Filmtheater

14.10. – Mon

TicketsReservation: https://www.kino-union.de/programm 13:00

15.10. – Tue

TicketsReservation: https://www.kino-union.de/programm 20:00

16.10. – Wed

TicketsReservation: https://www.kino-union.de/programm 10:15

Friedrichshain

Tilsiter Lichtspiele

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TicketsBuy Tickets OmU20:00

14.10. – Mon

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15.10. – Tue

TicketsBuy Tickets OmU20:00

16.10. – Wed

TicketsBuy Tickets OmU20:00

Kreuzberg

Yorck

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TicketsReservation: https://www.yorck.de/kinos/yorck 17:45

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TicketsReservation: https://www.yorck.de/kinos/yorck OmU20:30

14.10. – Mon

TicketsReservation: https://www.yorck.de/kinos/yorck 17:45

14.10. – Mon

TicketsReservation: https://www.yorck.de/kinos/yorck OmU20:30

15.10. – Tue

TicketsReservation: https://www.yorck.de/kinos/yorck 17:45

15.10. – Tue

TicketsReservation: https://www.yorck.de/kinos/yorck OmU20:30

16.10. – Wed

TicketsReservation: https://www.yorck.de/kinos/yorck 17:45

16.10. – Wed

TicketsReservation: https://www.yorck.de/kinos/yorck OmU20:30

Neukölln

Il Kino

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TicketsBuy Tickets OmU19:00

14.10. – Mon

TicketsBuy Tickets OmU16:40

15.10. – Tue

TicketsBuy Tickets OmU21:20

Pankow

Blauer Stern Pankow

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TicketsReservation: https://www.yorck.de/kinos/blauer-stern 20:30

14.10. – Mon

TicketsReservation: https://www.yorck.de/kinos/blauer-stern 20:10

15.10. – Tue

TicketsReservation: https://www.yorck.de/kinos/blauer-stern 20:10

16.10. – Wed

TicketsReservation: https://www.yorck.de/kinos/blauer-stern 20:10

Spandau

Steglitz

Wilmersdorf

Bundesplatz-Kino

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TicketsReservation: Tel. 030/85 40 60 85 OmU20:30

14.10. – Mon

TicketsReservation: Tel. 030/85 40 60 85 18:00

Cinema Paris

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14:30

TicketsReservation: https://www.yorck.de/kinos/cinema-paris 17:20

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TicketsReservation: https://www.yorck.de/kinos/cinema-paris OmU20:15

14.10. – Mon

TicketsReservation: https://www.yorck.de/kinos/cinema-paris 14:30

TicketsReservation: https://www.yorck.de/kinos/cinema-paris 17:20

14.10. – Mon

TicketsReservation: https://www.yorck.de/kinos/cinema-paris OmU20:15

15.10. – Tue

TicketsReservation: https://www.yorck.de/kinos/cinema-paris 14:30

TicketsReservation: https://www.yorck.de/kinos/cinema-paris 17:20

15.10. – Tue

TicketsReservation: https://www.yorck.de/kinos/cinema-paris OmU20:15

16.10. – Wed

TicketsReservation: https://www.yorck.de/kinos/cinema-paris 14:30

Eva-Lichtspiele

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TicketsReservation: Tel. 030/92 25 53 05 20:15

14.10. – Mon

TicketsReservation: Tel. 030/92 25 53 05 20:15

15.10. – Tue

TicketsReservation: Tel. 030/92 25 53 05 20:15

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