A resolute younger lady in Paris within the 1890s units the scientific world ablaze together with her revolutionary discoveries in Radioactive, a movie in regards to the lifetime of Marie Curie, primarily based on the 2010 graphic novel Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, A Story of Love and Fallout, by Lauren Redniss. Director Marjane Satrapi’s movie is half earnest biopic, half arthouse movie, elevated by a luminous, intense, and riveting efficiency by Rosamund Pike (Gone Woman) as Marie Curie.

(Some spoilers under for these unfamiliar with the lifetime of Marie Curie.)

Satrapi is probably finest identified for her highly effective autobiographical memoir, Persepolis, depicting her childhood in Iran throughout the Islamic Revolution in graphic novel kind, which she later tailored into an animated movie. So it isn’t stunning that she would admire Redniss’ graphic novel about Marie Curie. Nonetheless, Satrapi admitted in an interview that she was initially reluctant to tackle the undertaking. “I used to be like, why the hell would you make one other script about Marie Curie? There are already 4 of them,” she advised WWD. Ultimately, she grew to become “obsessed” with making the movie, which she views as being as a lot in regards to the aftermath of Marie Curie’s discoveries as her life and science.