‘Radioactive’ Trailer: Rosamund Pike’s Marie Curie Fights For Recognition
By Ben Pearson/July 10, 2020 12:00 pm EST
Rosamund Pike, who garnered awards attention for playing a real person in 2018’s A Private War, is back in Oscar mode with Radioactive, a biopic about the award-winning physicist and chemist Marie Curie. Check out the newest trailer below.
‘Radioactive’ Trailer: Rosamund Pike’s Marie Curie Fights For Recognition
By Ben Pearson/July 10, 2020 12:00 pm EST
Rosamund Pike, who garnered awards attention for playing a real person in 2018’s A Private War, is back in Oscar mode with Radioactive, a biopic about the award-winning physicist and chemist Marie Curie. Check out the newest trailer below.
Radioactive Trailer
Radioactive is directed by Marjane Satrapi, who is best known for co-writing and co-directing the 2007 film adaptation of her acclaimed autobiographical graphic novel Persepolis, which told the story of her childhood in Iran. Satrapi hasn’t directed a feature film since 2014’s The Voices, a movie in which Ryan Reynolds plays a killer who talks to animals. But now she’s back with Radioactive, which, like Persepolis, is also based on a graphic novel. Lauren Redniss’s Radioactive is a biography of Marie Curie with some unconventional art and layouts; unfortunately, it seems like the film adaptation trades those interesting comic visuals for a straight-down-the-middle period piece aesthetic.
It also pains me to say this, but did anyone else cringe their way through this whole trailer? The dialogue is super on the nose. “I want to tell you about radium, a most peculiar and remarkable element because it does not behave as it should…which, now that I think about it, is a spot-on metaphor for me, an intellectual woman in this male-dominated field.” The empowerment narrative, while obviously an important part of this story and very much a vital ongoing issue in our society, is so blatant and pandering that it almost feels like a parody.
Here’s the movie’s official synopsis:
From the 1870s through our 21st century, Radioactive tells the story of pioneering scientist Marie Curie (Rosamund Pike) through her extraordinary life and her enduring legacies – the passionate partnerships, her shining scientific breakthroughs, and the darker consequences that followed.
