• Director(s)

    Ellen Kuras

  • Production Year

    2023

  • Release date

    15/12/2023

  • Genre(s)

    Drama, War

  • Approx. running minutes

    117m

Film

LEE

Holocaust images, strong language, sexual violence, brief injury detail

This powerful biographical drama concerning photographer and war correspondent Elizabeth 'Lee' Miller contains harrowing scenes set inside a Concentration camp, and also vividly conveys the harsh treatment of women.…

This powerful biographical drama concerning photographer and war correspondent Elizabeth 'Lee' Miller contains harrowing scenes set inside a Concentration camp, and also vividly conveys the harsh treatment of women.

Content Advice(May contain spoilers)

violence

threat and horror

language

sex

discrimination

drugs

sexual violence and sexual threat

suicide

  • Director(s)

    Ellen Kuras

  • Production Year

    2023

  • Release date

    15/12/2023

  • Genre(s)

    Drama, War

  • Approx. running minutes

    117m

Holocaust images, strong language, sexual violence, brief injury detail
Classified Date:
05/12/2023
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Studio Canal
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
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.
Classified Date:
12/04/2024
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Studio Canal

  • Classified date

    05/12/2023

  • Language

    English