Kate Winslet goes to war with Lee Miller

There are many and very different films that could be made about Lee Miller from the period of his life we chose: young model for the magazine Vogue, a fashion photographer in New York, muse and lover of Man Ray and one of the few photojournalists on the Allied front during World War II. This last facet is the focus of the biopic Lee Miller, whose main asset is the brave performance of a Kate Winslet who avoids the temptation to turn Miller into a heroine and, in fact, does not even try to make her likeable. The film, on the other hand, shamelessly embraces the conventions of the biopeaks to make a Wikipedia review of the events and people of this stage of Miller's life, an excessively routine exercise that does not do justice to the complexity and courage of the woman who planted her dirty boots from the Dachau floor in Adolf Hitler's immaculate bathroom and took a nude photo of herself in the bathroom.

Behind the camera is one of the best cinematographers of recent decades – Ellen Kuras, in her debut as a fiction director – but, even so, the images of Lee Miller They are rather bland, lifeless historical postcards adorned by an impressive cast of supporting actors (Marion Cotillard, Noémie Merlant, Josh O'Connor, Alexander Skarsgård) criminally wasted, with only Andy Samberg standing out outside his usual comic register.