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The real spark doesn’t arrive until late in the film in the form of Marie’s grown daughter Iréne, giving Pike and Taylor-Joy some welcome chemistry as mirror images of each other, and providing a bit of needed electricity and exuberance to the film. It’s there as the Curies work and cough and convulse, as Marie becomes pregnant and gives birth to two daughters, and as she and her husband slowly begin to die from their exposure. Riley’s Pierre balances out the duo for a brief romantic segment to the film, but then the radiation–well-known in its effects today by the viewing audience, lurks like its own phantom character throughout the picture. Her Curie is self-absorbed, blunt, and determined in the face of first discrimination for her sex and later discrimination for her Polish heritage.
Pike delivers a performance that conjures Katherine Hepburn in some of her more powerful roles. Assembled primarily in chronological fashion, Radioactive flashes into the future beyond Curie’s death to illustrates the negative impacts of her discoveries on the world (including re-creations of the first atomic bomb test in New Mexico, the Enola Gay dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, and the Chernobyl disaster), and back to her youth in Poland to explain Madame Curie’s world view, her drive, and her relationships with others. Marjane Satrapi (Persepolis, The Voices) directed this film, a look at various periods in Madame Curie’s life as she partners with husband Pierre, played by Sam Riley (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Maleficent) and their discovery of new elements polonium and uranium at the turn of the 20th century. for the first time this week streaming on Amazon Prime. Yet exceptional performances by Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl, Jack Reacher, Die Another Day) as Maria Skłodowska aka Madame Marie Curie and Anya Taylor-Joy (Emma, Split, The New Mutants) as her daughter Iréne, and a dearth of new films this summer, will likely make this 2018 production worth your time. If you like your historical biopics about scientific discoveries of the inspiring and motivational variety, Amazon Studios and Studiocanal’s latest film Radioactive, a barely recognizable adaptation of the Lauren Redniss graphic novel, Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale o f Love a nd Fallout ,may not be for you. The price of knowledge is often great and grim.