I read a biography of Lee Miller a few years ago and looked forward to seeing the film Lee. Lee’s younger life as a model and involvement in New York fashion and the Surrealist movement were so important to her life, I was disappointed that there wasn’t a brief review in the film. The picnic scene inspired by Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass didn’t work. Kate Winslet aged a decade while making this 8 year film production, so a young actress would have had to play Lee in her Paris life, but that certainly could have been accomplished.
Lee was in her thirties during WWII. She was a tall, willowy model, past her early youth, but not yet middle aged. The harsh American accent and truck driver language seemed to be excessive. Certainly, the war damaged her and made her an alcoholic, but she starts out that way in the film.
I found this film to be dreary and depressing, and not worthy of Lee’s “many lives.”