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At times audacious, at others irritatingly obfuscating, Radioactive feels like a half-life story and not the fulsome Madame Curie biopic one might have hoped for.
Full reviewOscar nominee Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl) is history-making physicist and chemist Marie Curie in this biopic from Oscar-nominated director Marjane Satrapi (Persepolis).
"When Maria lands in Paris from Warsaw at age 24, she is passionately curious, but impatient with lesser minds. Meeting the more established Pierre Curie (Sam Riley) could be her salvation, but Maria — now Marie — proves disastrous at flirting and small talk. Yet even as the two argue, they recognize a mutual attraction. Soon Pierre and Marie agree to not just work together, but to marry. As they push their scientific investigation forward, the Curies unlock forces far beyond their control." (Toronto International Film Festival)
LessAt times audacious, at others irritatingly obfuscating, Radioactive feels like a half-life story and not the fulsome Madame Curie biopic one might have hoped for.
Full reviewWhile the story treads familiar territory to anyone who's seen a biopic about a famous Great Man, director Marjane Satrapi elegantly considers the cost at the heart of Curie's discoveries, and Rosamund Pike delivers a truly stirring performance.
Full reviewRadioactive is disappointingly paint-by-numbers, and often laughably ill-conceived.
Full reviewIf this film does lift up Marie Curie, it does so for a two-dimensional Marie Curie of its own creation. Everything that should make her a richer character is fake.
Full reviewSatrapi collapses a century of innovation and destruction from the discovery of chemotherapy to Chernobyl into a flat timeline that Curie can see right through as though looking at an x-ray. In those moments of stylistic imagination, the film glows.
Full reviewRadioactive is now playing in 1 cinema in New Zealand. Radioactive is available to stream in New Zealand now on Google Play and Apple TV and Neon Rentals and AroVision.
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