2020 · drama · romance · history
Radioactive
Directed by Marjane Satrapi1h 51m2020
The story of Nobel Prize winner Maria Skłodowska-Curie and her extraordinary scientific discoveries—through the prism of her marriage to husband Pierre—and the seismic and transformative effects their discovery of radium had on the 20th century.
Our read: Radioactive (2020) reads as a warm, steady, grounded drama · romance · history entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, steady, measured drama / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender.
- warm
- tender
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“You want Marie Curie's life traced through love, discovery, and nuclear consequence.”
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