Lee (15)

The screening on Tue 8 Oct at 7.30pm and Thu 10 Oct at 2pm will have descriptive subtitles. The screening on Thu 10 Oct at 2pm will be relaxed for people living with dementia. 

LEE tells the story of Lee Miller, an American photographer. Determined to document the truth of the Nazi regime, and despite 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.

‘Kate Winslet is vivid in close-up of war photographer Lee Miller’ – Financial Times

‘Kate Winslet captures Lee Miller’s indomitable spirit in this earnest wartime biopic’ – BFI

‘Kate Winslet scores her best ever role in this biopic of a Vogue model-turned WW2 photographer’ – BBC

Director –  Ellen Kuras

Cast –  Kate Winslet, Alexander Skarsgård

• Information about screenings with descriptive subtitles

  Descriptive subtitles, sometimes referred to as subtitles for D/deaf and hard-of-hearing people or captions, transcribe dialogue and relevant aspects of the soundtrack, including music and sound effects, attempting to give D/deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers an equal experience to those who are able to watch films without descriptive subtitles. Descriptive subtitles would include speech identifiers and descriptive elements such as [door slamming] and [kettle whistling].

• Seating accessibility information

  Seat size

  Seats in the Cinema are 45cm (172/3“) wide and 46cm (18“) deep, are 40cm (152/3“) from the floor, and have 12cm (42/3“) between seats.

  Armrests

  Seats in the Cinema have armrests that do not fold away, and cannot be completely removed.

  Legroom

  Seats in the cinema have 30cm (112/3”) of legroom in front of seats, with additional legroom on row A and seats B1-B4 and B11-B14.

  Further information

  • If you have any questions about accessibility our Box Office team are always happy to help and can be contacted on 01642 525199 or by emailing [email protected] - you can also tell us about your access requirements when prompted to do so during the online booking process.
• BBFC rating information (may contain spoilers)

  violence

  Some brief but intense scenes of wartime violence include those in which Lee dodges bullets and explosions, as well as those in which she is briefly blown backwards by the force of a bomb blast. However, there is limited detail.

  threat and horror

  Following liberation from Nazi occupation, there is a scene in which a woman believed to have collaborated with the enemy undergoes enforced head shaving whilst a crowd of people hurl abuse at her.

  language

  The film contains strong language (‘f**k’), as well as milder terms (for example, ‘whore’, ‘shit’, ‘bullshit’, ‘balls’, ‘asshole’, ‘ass’, ‘piss’, ‘God’, ‘Jesus’, ‘Christ’, ‘damn’ and ‘hell’).

  sex

  A couple have noisy sex off-screen. A man smears paint over a woman’s breasts.

  discrimination

  There are scenes in which women are refused entry to all-male gatherings during wartime, which reflect discriminatory practices at the time. Discrimination is immediately challenged. Following his arrest, a Nazi officer approaches a black American soldier and says ‘Heil Hitler’.

  drugs

  A woman takes a pill, and offers one to a man who declines.

  sexual violence and sexual threat

  In a brief scene, a woman discovers an American soldier raping another woman. She intervenes, fights the man and threatens him with a knife. A woman tearfully tells another woman about suffering child sexual abuse. She says her mother was ashamed and told her never to reveal details of the abuse.

  suicide and self-harm

  US soldiers arrive in a building previously occupied by Nazis, there are references to families who have taken their lives by swallowing cyanide, and this is followed by sight of dead bodies.

  injury detail

  A scene set in a field hospital includes brief sight of an exposed knee stump following amputation. The scene also includes brief wound detail, bloody clothes, and sight of a man whose face is almost entirely bandaged.

  nudity

  There is sexualised nudity in scenes in which women expose their breasts. One of these scenes is prolonged and contains some emphasis.

  disturbing images

  The film includes a prolonged and harrowing sequence in which Lee and a colleague visit a Concentration camp after it has been liberated. There are brief scenes featuring naked emaciated corpses, as well as those featuring starving inmates. Lee and her colleague are traumatised by what they see. There are also brief images of real dead bodies seen in Lee’s photographs.

  theme

  Upsetting scenes and scenes of emotional upset during WWII include those in which a woman relates how her son was taken away and shot, as well as those relating to people being taken away on trains and not returning. People cry whilst recalling those who died during the Holocaust.