Radioactive

[Opens July 24 on Amazon Prime.] Striking photography reinforces the somber atmosphere in this engaging, dark, well-acted, unevenly paced, star-studded (Simon Russell Beale, Corey Johnson, Aneurin Barnard, Katherine Parkinson, Tom Woodward, et al.), 111-minute, 2019 biographical film based on Lauren Redniss's novel Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout that chronicles the struggles of complex, tenacious, driven, headstrong, stubborn Polish physicist and chemist Madame Marie Sklodowska-Curie (Rosamund Pike) who arrived in Paris from Warsaw in 1893 and ultimately discovers the radioactive elements Polonium and Radium with her supportive scientist husband Pierre Curie (Sam Riley) with whom she had two daughters (Anya Taylor-Joy and Cara Bossom) and later was recognized with the Nobel Prize for chemistry for her scientific achievements that led to cancer treatments, radiography, and the atomic bomb.
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