Sarah Ditum

The director of Persepolis talks about her biopic of Marie Curie: Marjane Satrapi interviewed

Sarah Ditum speaks to the celebrated director about difficult women, exile from Iran and her fears for the future of democracy

Indica Watson as Irene Curie and Rosamund Pike as Marie Curie in Marjane Satrapi's Radioactive 
issue 21 March 2020

The problem with making an accurate film about science is that science is rarely exciting to watch, explains director Marjane Satrapi. Movie convention tends to insist on the climax of the eureka moment and the fiction of the solitary male genius, who doggedly closes in on his discovery in the same way that a detective might doggedly close in on a killer.

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