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Madame Curie

1943 · 124 min

A warm, earnest old-Hollywood biography that makes scientific persistence feel like a love story, with a bittersweet emotional payoff.

Directed by: Mervyn LeRoy
Genres: Drama, Romance, History
Starring: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Henry Travers

Tagline: MR. and MRS. MINIVER together again
Overview: Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying in her field, Marie encounters skepticism concerning her abilities, but is eventually offered a research placement in Pierre Curie's lab. The scientists soon fall in love and embark on a shared quest to extract, from a particular type of rock, a new chemical element they have named radium. However, their research puts them on the brink of professional failure.

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Directed by: Mervyn LeRoy
Genres: Drama, Romance, History
Starring: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Henry Travers

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Tone: earneststrength 3 of 3
warmstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
upliftingstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: ambition
love
science
grief
identity
Places: big city
workplace
countryside
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: true story
Content intensity: Gore none
Language none
Violence mild
Sex none

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Humour	2
Realism	8
Romance	6
Tension	4
Darkness	3
Complexity	4
Emotional weight	7

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Genres: drama, romance, history
Directed by: Mervyn LeRoy
Written by: Hans Rameau, Christina Stead, Paul Osborn, Ève Curie
Starring: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Henry Travers, Albert Bassermann, Robert Walker, C. Aubrey Smith, May Whitty, Victor Francen
Cinematography: Joseph Ruttenberg
Runtime: 124 min
Country: United States of America
Languages: English

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