Synopsis
The most turbulent five years in the life of a genius woman: Between 1905, where Marie Curie comes with Pierre Curie to Stockholm to be awarded the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the radioactivity, and 1911, where she receives her second Nobel Prize, after challenging France's male-dominated academic establishment both as a scientist and a woman.
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Cast
- Karolina GruszkaMarie Curie
- Arieh WorthalterPaul Langevin
- Charles BerlingPierre Curie
- Izabela KunaBronisława Skłodowska
- Malik ZidiAndré-Louis Debierne
- André WilmsEugène Curie
- Daniel OlbrychskiEmile Amagat
- Marie DenarnaudJeanne Langevin
- Samuel FinziGustave Téry
- Piotr GłowackiAlbert Einstein
Recommendations
- 70
Los Angeles Times
As biopics go, Marie Curie is a beautifully rendered sketch, rather than a fully detailed painting. - 70
The New York Times
There’s a lot of labor and conflict shown here, and rarely have they looked so good. - 50
Variety
Marie Noelle’s evidently impassioned portrait of the trailblazing Polish-French physicist and chemist emerges as an odd blend of, well, formulae, following a starchy biopic pattern one minute and giving in to impressionistic abstraction the next. - 50
Washington Post
Marie Noelle fills the story with passion, debate and human contradiction. If the material ultimately eludes the director’s grasp, wandering off on unfocused tangents, it’s because of its ambition. - 40
Empire
A fascinating life is reduced to a series of skittishly edited and visually stylised vignettes that do scant justice to Marie Curie's scientific achievements and Karolina Gruszka's laudably intense performance. - 25
San Francisco Chronicle
A curiously downbeat, rather cold work without much passion or science that portrays a woman whose life was brimming with both.
