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.
Acting
Rosamund Pike's ferocious, brittle brilliance—she radiates conviction.
Direction
Satrapi's graphic novel roots burst through in stylized radioactive visions.
Cinematography
That sickly green luminescence haunting every frame like a warning.
Director
Marjane Satrapi
Rosamund Pike
Marie Curie
Sam Riley
Pierre Curie
Aneurin Barnard
Paul Langevin
Simon Russell Beale
Professor Lippmann
Katherine Parkinson
Jeanne Langevin
Sian Brooke
Bronia Sklodowska
Anya Taylor-Joy
Irène Aged 18
Yvette Feuer
Carla
Mirjam Novak
Nurse
Ralph Berkin
Doctor
Faye Bradbrook
Bronia's Maid
Drew Jacoby
Loie Fuller
Harriet Turnbull
Young Marie
Georgina Rich
Marie's Mother
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Marjane Satrapi also made 'Persepolis'—she clearly has a thing for women who refuse to behave.
The film's most radical move: showing Marie's affair with Paul Langevin not as scandal but as her right to desire.
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