Roadside Attractions and Vertical today released the official trailer for the upcoming World War II biopic, Lee, starring Kate Winslet (The Reader, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) as American war correspondent and photographer, Lee Miller. It will be released in U.S. theaters on September 27th.
Lee is the directorial feature from award-winning cinematographer Ellen Kuras (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, A Little Chaos). It also stars Josh O’Connor (Challengers, The Crown), Andrea Riseborough (To Leslie, Mandy), Andy Samberg (Palm Springs, Brooklyn Nine-Nine), Alexander Skarsgård (The Northman, Succession), Marion Cotillard (Inception, La Vie en Rose), and Noémie Merlant (Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Tár).
The synopsis reads: “The film explores the most significant decade of Lee Miller’s life. As a middle-aged woman, she refused to be remembered as a model and male artists’ muse. Lee Miller defied the expectations and rules of the time by traveling to Europe to report from the frontline during WWII. There, in part as a reaction to her own well-hidden trauma, she used her Rolleiflex camera to give a voice to the voiceless. What she captured on film in Dachau and throughout Europe was shocking and horrific. Her photographs of the war, its victims and its consequences remain among the most significant and historically important of the Second World War. She changed war photography forever, but Lee Miller paid an enormous personal price for what she witnessed and the stories she fought to tell.”
Lee is written by Liz Hannah (The Post, The Dropout), Marion Hume (Capturing Lee Miller), and John Collee (Monkey Man, Boy Swallows Universe), and produced by Kate Solomon (Legend, 7 Days in Entebbe), Kate Winslet, Troy Lum (Berlin Syndrome, Boy Swallows Universe), Andrew Mason (The Matrix, The Water Diviner), Marie Savare (Ferrari, Still Alice), and Lauren Hantz (I Love My Dad, The Listener).
Miller had a profound understanding and empathy for women and the voiceless victims of war. Her images display both the fragility and ferocity of the human experience. Above all, the film shows how Miller lived her life at full-throttle in pursuit of truth, for which she paid a huge personal price, forcing her to confront a traumatic and deeply buried secret from her childhood.
Watch the official trailer below.