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Marie Curie: The Courage of Knowledge

Marie Curie

2016

Marie Noëlle

Karolina Gruszka, Arieh Worthalter, Charles Berling, Iza Kuna ...

5.2

859

Drama. Romance The most turbulent years in the life of a genius woman: between 1905, when Marie Curie (Karolina Gruszka) comes with her husband Pierre Curie (Charles Berling) to Stockholm to be awarded the Nobel Prize for the discovery of radioactivity, and 1911, when she receives her second Nobel Prize, after challenging France’s male-dominated academic establishment both as a scientist and a woman.

	Author	Review
United States	Ken Jaworowski The New York Times	"It’s lovely to watch (...) Still, if we don’t always know what drives Curie, we see the determination itself. That’s enough to keep the film moving along"	POS
United States	Alan Zilberman The Washington Post	"Noelle fills the story with passion, debate and human contradiction (...) The film’s uneven, awkward handling of these highlights adds up to little more than a history lesson (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Kimber Myers Los Angeles Times	"'Marie Curie' is a beautifully rendered sketch, rather than a fully detailed painting (...) Michal Englert employs a handheld camera, bringing an intimacy as well as a modern feeling to ensure that 'Marie Curie' never feels stale"	POS
United States	Guy Lodge Variety	"Sincere if stylistically inconsistent (...) [It] emerges as an odd blend of, well, formulae, following a starchy biopic pattern one minute and giving in to impressionistic abstraction the next"	NEU
United States	G. Allen Johnson San Francisco Chronicle	"[It] lacks vital elements (...) The film is lifeless (...) Another missed opportunity"	NEG
United States	Ben Sachs Chicago Reader	"[It] promises a generic and stodgy biopic, but it's somewhat better than that. Director Marie Noëlle (...) dutifully relates the facts of Curie's biography (...) Noëlle's stylistic approach is unpredictable"	POS

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