Film Review - Lee (2024)

Lee is based off of the life of Lee Miller (Kate Winslet) a photographer in France when World War II breaks out and she volunteers to photograph the fighting on the front and the aftermath of the War it had on Europe.

Lee is a pretty solid little film, it doesn’t try to be anything more than it isn’t and I was okay with it for the most part, the film tells its story pretty well though at times it cuts back to Lee as an older woman (including Winslet in old age makeup and Josh O’Connor as a young journalist interviewing her about her time during the war.) and when those cutaways came in they bothered me because I felt like they took me out of the WW2 scenes in the film, it would’ve been better if it had been a voiceover narration so that you could stay in the WW2 moments.

As for the performances they are pretty solid, Winslet is good in the title role even though the old age version of the character didn’t work as well for me, O’Connor is good as well as is Andy Samberg and Alexander Skarsgard and while it is nice to see Marion Cotillard again on screen her screen time is sadly too small, hopefully she takes a bigger role in the future.

And so that was Lee and it’s a good little film that is not the best I’ve seen but far from the worst either, its solid and does its job well, 3 out of 5.