"The Girl With The Leica," which premiered at the Venice Film Festival, is Alina Marazzi's unconventional biopic of Gerda Taro, the pioneering war photographer who died aged 26 while covering the Spanish Civil War. The review argues that although Marazzi tries to distinguish her film stylistically, it inevitably invites comparison with Ellen Kuras's 2023 film "Lee" about photojournalist Lee Miller, which could make it harder for the new film to find its own audience.

The film traces Taro (played by Emilia Schüle) from her political awakening in 1932 Leipzig, as Gerta Pohorylle, through to Paris, where she meets Hungarian photographer Endre Friedmann, later reinvented by Taro as "Robert Capa." Together they became renowned for documenting the Spanish Civil War, though Capa received most of the credit despite their collaborative approach. The review praises the film's use of archive footage and its meditation on photography and legacy, but criticises its confusing shifts between countries and time periods and a jumbled focus on Taro's relationships with several men, concluding that it over-complicates an otherwise profound story.