Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaMarie Curie’s barrier-breaking work as a physicist and chemist has inspired countless movies, plays and books over the years.
But Marjane Satrapi, the director of “Radioactive,” a new film about Curie’s life and career, wasn’t interested in telling a conventional story of birth-to-death hagiography.
Satrapi, Oscar nominated for her 2007 animated film “Persepolis,” has made a movie that’s equally engaged with the consequences of Curie’s pioneering work in isolating radioactive isotopes and her discovery of polonium and radium.
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