Lee (15) with Q&A

Dir. Ellen Kuras | 2023 | 117 mins | English 

LEE tells the story of Lee Miller, 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, for which she paid an enormous personal price. 

The film is not a biopic, instead it 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 and travelled to Europe to report from the frontline. 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 Lee 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 paid an enormous personal price for what she witnessed and the stories she fought to tell.

We're excited to have Antony Penrose coming to The Poly for a Q&A following our showing of Lee. Antony Penrose is a film maker, photographer, author, artist, photo-curator, and co-founder of the Lee Miller Archives and The Penrose Collection. He is also the son of Lee Miller. Find out more about Antony Penrose and the Lee Miller Archive here: https://www.leemiller.co.uk/

Lee (15) + Q&A with Antony Penrose

Sunday 1st December, 3.00pm

Tickets: £9.00/£7.50/£7.00

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