As a middle-aged woman, Lee refused to be remembered as a model, covergirl and male artists’ muse (she was the subject of the avant-garde photographer Man Ray ). She defied the expectations and rules of the time and travelled to Europe to report from the frontline. She challenged the patriarchy and paved the way in a male-dominated space.

With the biopic of American photographer Lee Miller opening at theaters in the UK today, star Kate Winslet has spoken about the many challenges faced by Lee – both for the real-life Miller, as a female war photographer covering the atrocities of concentration camps,

There is a great movie in Lee – for instance, how Lee Miller's photographs intimately depicted women's realities after the war, from the head-shavings of alleged nazi collaborators to the unpunished sexual assaults on women by both sides of the conflict. However, it just needed a bit more bravery to bring it out and stick with it.

Kate Winslet’s Lee Miller is magnetic. With an expression that is always somewhere between curious and defiant, she brings a gumption reminiscent of Mare of Easttown to the fashion model turned war photographer who was one of the first people to record the atrocities at the concentration camps,

Starring Kate Winslet, it is a "handsomely upholstered account" of the life of Lee Miller, the American model-turned-war photographer who accompanied US forces as they advanced through northwest France and into Germany in 1944-45.

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It is very, very hard to make independent films, and extremely hard to make films as a woman, about a woman,’ Kate Winslet says the day before the premiere of her new film, Lee, the extraordinary story of Second World War photographer Lee Miller,

Her work on the frontlines of WWII delivered some of the most essential, and horrifying, images of the Holocaust, but Lee Miller’s strong, independent spirit is boxed in by the formulaic, paint-by-num