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Title: Radioactive (2019)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Rosamund Pike | ... | Marie Curie | |
| Yvette Feuer | ... | Carla | |
| Mirjam Novak | ... | Nurse (as Mirjam Novák) | |
| Ralph Berkin | ... | Doctor | |
| Sam Riley | ... | Pierre Curie | |
| Simon Russell Beale | ... | Professor Lippmann | |
| Sian Brooke | ... | Bronia Sklodowska | |
| Faye Bradbrook | ... | Bronia's Maid | |
| Drew Jacoby | ... | Loie Fuller | |
| Aneurin Barnard | ... | Paul Langevin | |
| Harriet Turnbull | ... | Young Marie | |
| Georgina Rich | ... | Marie's Mother | |
| Elise Alexandre | ... | Young Bronia | |
| Katherine Parkinson | ... | Jeanne Langevin | |
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Dóra Köves | ... | Pierre's Mother |
The incredible true story of Marie Sklodowska-Curie and her Nobel Prize-winning work that changed the world.
I had a tough time with this film - it didn't really hold my attention.
"Radioactive" purports to tell the story of Marie Curie and her husband Pierre, and their scientific work which resulted in their pioneering work in radioactivity.
"Madam Curie" from 1943 was so much better, in spite of the fact that they drenched Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon in flour to make them look old at the end. Since Eve Curie chose Greer Garson for the role (and the film was based on her book), it seems logical that Rosalind Pike saw Madam Curie.
Pike reminded me very much of Greer Garson except that the way Marie is portrayed in the film is as an arrogant, willful, somewhat unpleasant woman. It's not Pike's fault. I don't think the direction is very good.
I also don't know why Hiroshima and Chernobyl were shown. Marie Curie invented polonium and radium, which have nothing to do with these bombs. It just indicates that the research for this script wasn't very good.
I won't go through all the other inaccuracies. The importance of a biopic is that people will become interested and read up on the subject, not to accept everything in the film as fact.
The performances are good. Marie Curie was an amazing woman who broke through a lot of barriers and worked tirelessly, believing in the importance of science.
Somehow I was more swept away by the 1943 version. Radioactive left me feeling kind of blah. Also it was too long.