The actress Rosamund Pike gave life to Marie Sklodowska-Curie, one of the most relevant scientists in history. But she was also a woman who paved the way: she became the first person to receive two Nobel Prizes, the first woman professor at the Sorbonne and, also, the first foreigner to be buried in the Pantheon of Illustrious Men of France. Her discovery of polonium and radium with her husband, physicist Pierre Curie, catapulted her to the world’s scientific elite. For this and much more, film director Marjane Satrapi dedicated an entire biographical film to her: Madame CurieNow available in RTVE Playthe video platform on demand that is priceless. Here we tell you all the details about the film that you may not have known.
Madame Curie, reality vs fiction
Although many think that this film is the life of Marie Curie, the film It is based on the graphic novel Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout (Radioactivity: Marie and Pierre Curie, a story of love and consequences, in Spanish), by Lauren Redniss. Her objective was to bring the figure of Marie Curie closer to the little ones, combining graphic arts with the biography of the scientific couple to present her story and transport them to that time.
Marie Curie is one of the most important scientists in history: she discovered radioactive elements and their application in medicine IMDb / Amazon Prime Video
The director took this book as a reference, becoming Madame Curie in the Marjane Satrapi’s first film not written by her. In fact, his previous films, Persepolis y Chicken with plumswere based on graphic novels as well, but written solely by Satrapi herself, who is also an illustrator. He decided to make this feature film in dedication to his motherwho always wanted her daughter to become a renowned scientist like Curie.
The film premiered at the 2020 Toronto Film Festival and completes the cast Sam Riley, in charge of getting under the skin of Marie’s husband, Pierre Curie; while Anya Taylor-Joy plays the scientist’s daughterIrene Curie; the Aneurin Barnard, and Paul Langevinthe French physicist known for his theory of magnetism and for organizing the Solvay Congress.
As to Maria Salomea Sklodowskabetter known as Marie CurieIt was a Polish physics and chemistry born in Poland during the invasion of Russia at the end of the 19th century. She grew up learning Polish while He studied the history of his country secretly of the authorities. He moved to Paris, where discovered radium and polonium, two chemical elements hitherto unknown in the periodic table. Thanks to this he was able to patent techniques for isolate radioactive isotopes y create devices to take x-rays. All of this helped her become the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physicswhich she shared with her husband, Pierre Curie, and the physicist Henri Becquerel.
Madame Curie, on RTVE Play
Marie Sklodowska-Curieborn in Poland and living in Paris, He dedicated his life to scientific research and the fight for respect for equality between men and women. Their discoveries in the field of radioactivity, at the beginning of the 20th century, changed the world forever. As he discovers previously unknown radioactive elements, it soon becomes terrifyingly obvious that his research could lead to applications in medicine that would save thousands of lives, but also to uses in war that could destroy millions of them.
This is the starting point of the dramatic and biographical film of 2019 about one of the most important scientists in history, directed by Marjane Satrapi y starring Rosamund PikeSam Riley, Yvette Feuer, Mirjam Novak. Now available in the RTVE Play film catalogwhere you will find hundreds of free movies and online!