“Oh, you are impossibly dramatic,” Bronisława Dłuska says to her sister following a frantic argument in the opening minutes of Radioactive, director Marjane Satrapi’s biopic of Marie Curie. She might as well have been talking about this film.

Premiering at Toronto International Film Festival in 2019, the film was subsequently postponed from a wider release due to the pandemic. About a year ago, it saw the light of the day in the US and the UK via digital releases; and now in mid-2021, it finally makes its way to our fine country.

Starring Rosamund Pike in the lead role of the celebrated scientist, the film itself is based on the graphic novel Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout by Lauren Redniss.