About this exhibition

In a foreword for the recent publication Lee Miller Photographs, Kate Winslet expresses her admiration for Miller: ‘There are so many stories of girls to whom things happened. Lee Miller was a woman who made things happen. I don’t mind admitting I adore her.’ Writing from the film set, Winslet continues ‘This photographer-writer-reporter did everything she did with love, lust, and courage, and is an inspiration for what you can achieve, and what you can bear, if you dare to take life firmly by the hands and live it at full throttle. Her legacy is extraordinary.’

Antony Penrose, co-Director of Farleys House and Gallery and Lee Miller’s son, adds: ‘Other attempts to make a feature film about Lee had failed in the past, but this one succeeded mainly due to Kate Winslet’s vision and determination. It owes much of its force and integrity to being a film about a woman made by women.’

LEE tells the story of Lee Miller (Winslet), American photographer. Determined to document the truth of the Nazi regime, and in spite of the odds stacked against female correspondents, Lee captured some of the most important images of World War II, but they came at an enormous personal price. 

 

 

 

Joining Winslet in the cast of LEE is Andy Samberg playing Life Magazine photographer David E. Scherman; Alexander Skarsgård playing English Surrealist painter, photographer, poet and biographer Roland Penrose; Marion Cotillard playing Solange D’Ayen, the fashion director of French Vogue and close friend of Miller’s: Josh O’Connor playing Tony, a young journalist and Andrea Riseborough playing British Vogue Editor Audrey Withers.