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Madame?
Madame Curie!
Get an ambulance car!
Madame, what happened?
Hurry. She's very weak.
- This is Madame Curie? - Yes.
Get your morning paper!
Oh!
Duclaux?
Yes.
Are you interested in microbiology?
I'm interested in all science
that confronts prevailing attitudes.
I'm Pierre Curie.
Hello, Monsieur Curie.
Goodbye.
You're with company.
I've intruded.
You have.
Now is your opportunity to tell us why you may have intruded,
Mademoiselle Sklodowska.
Professor Lippmann,
I want to protest in the strongest possible terms.
My equipment was moved again last night.
There's a simple reason for that.
More than simple. It is a distinct lack of respect
by those who share your laboratory with me.
Allow me to posit
an opposing hypothesis, Mademoiselle Sklodowska.
It might be that your equipment takes up too much space.
If a scientist's equipment cannot be kept
in the precise positions in which it was left...
Then we are savages, not scientists.
I couldn't agree more.
Then all I need is your assurance...
And it is for this reason I must ask you
please to leave my laboratory.
Leave?
We cannot keep you in the manner you require.
But I have nowhere else to go.
Then you'll have to set up a laboratory of your own,
Mademoiselle Sklodowska.
I lack the funds.
Then your lack of foresight in presenting me, constantly,
with demands is something that will teach all of us
a valuable lesson.
- Maybe it's because I'm Polish. - Of course not.
Or it's because I'm not a man.
Well, yes, it might be that. But, Marya...
We are in Paris. I have taken the name Marie.
- Your child is crying. - Yes, I am aware of that.
So, shouldn't you assume some sort of motherly disposition?
- Sorry, madame. - Thank you.
There. Shh, shh.
Thank you, Lana.
What if you were to visit him? Apologise?
I came all the way from Poland to study science.
I can't apologise. Science is lost to me!
I'm going to have to become a teacher!
Oh, you are impossibly dramatic.
Your child is dramatic.
Marya...
- Apologise. - No! Never.
I will find my own way.
No.
Most amazing.
Please don't suppose anything by me standing beside you.
It's the woman from the street with the Duclaux. Hello.
I stand beside you
merely because you look as awkward as I feel.
- And I made the... - Do I seem awkward?
...I think, correct assumption
that we will look less awkward standing together...
I don't feel awkward.
...than we might standing apart.
Well, that's a theory I can support.
I'm Pierre Curie.
You do like your name, don't you?
That's the second time you've told me it.
You're Marya Sklodowska.
I don't believe I gave you my name.
She's wonderful, isn't she? The dancer.
Her name is Loie Fuller should you wish to see her again.
Do you make it your business to know everybody's names?
She calls it, this dance, her fire dance.
Why?
I believe it's because she's interested
in the way flames move.
You're right, you didn't tell me your name,
but I do know it for three reasons.
One: you're one of only 23 female scientists
within the department.
A prime number.
Two: I've heard about your run-ins with Professor Lippmann.
They've gained you some infamy.
And three: I read your paper
on the magnetic properties of steel.
It contained some exceptional science.
Thank you.
And as you've been so kind,
I will admit that I have also read your paper
- on crystallisation. - Oh?
Which I enjoyed. Very much.
Hm.
Thank you.
I also heard what Lippmann did, evicting you from your lab.
I am sorry.
I don't need pity, Monsieur Curie.
But if I could be of any assistance...
I will be fine.
Oh!
Just to be clear, I refuse to be grateful
for a scientist offering another scientist a room.
I'm more than capable and my work...
Your ingratitude is entirely correct.
And also I feel it's worth pointing out
that I will not be your mistress.
The thought hadn't occurred to me.
And I won't tolerate meddling.
I will not be told how my experiments
- will be optimised better... - Well, I enjoy sharing science,
and I think that by working together...
I will not tolerate it.
Well, you'll have to learn to tolerate it.
I like collaboration.
I will take an interest in your work
and I'll be interested if you take an interest in mine.
Mademoiselle Sklodowska?
Before you turn your back on the only room
anyone is offering you, will you at least see where I work?
Basic.
Marcel, Andre, Maurice and Paul,
may I introduce Mademoiselle Marie Sklodowska.
Such a pleasure to meet you, Mademoiselle Sklodowska.
- We've heard so much about you. - You have?
The Académie probably dislike me
almost as much as they dislike you.
I've been passed over
for every major advancement, professorship, funding.
Why? Well, I'm not entirely sure. Maybe I bore them,
maybe I scare them, but they do me no great favour, either.
But you're a scientist of some renown.
Well, and I'm asking you to share my renowned,
yet basic, space with me.
Why are you asking?
I have an instinct about you.
An instinct is not a particularly scientific reason.
No, but it's still a reason.
Yes.
Yes, this will suit my needs entirely.
Good.
You've been frowning at that all week.
I'm observing.
What are you looking for?
I find it easier to observe when I'm not talking.
I measure uranium,
and I discover less radiations than I do in its ore.
The ore is more powerful than the element?
Exactly. And I can't quite work...
There must be some anomaly in the results.
I've run the same test six times. I get identical results.
My instinct is that there is another element
that's skewing the results.
You think you've found an undiscovered element?
- If you're laughing at me... - No, I'm not laughing at you.
That's exciting.
Your measuring equipment is useless.
It's worked perfectly fine for me so far.
If we're to get the figures you need,
we need something that's capable of extreme precision.
There is no "we".
You need something that's capable of measuring
- microscopic aspects of energy. - No, please. No, no...
Yes. And I have an idea. Follow me.
Monsieur Curie.
I'm sorry, I know it's some distance.
The length of our journey doesn't agitate me,
Monsieur Curie. The destination does.
This is one of the finest hospitals in Paris.
There's a piece of equipment...
I choose not to go into hospitals.
But you're a scientist!
'Marya, are you frightened?'
Of what?
Of my illness?
No.
Good.
Because there's no reason to be frightened.
Will you die?
Not if you cure me.
How can I cure you?
You can kiss me.
If you kiss me again, I promise I won't die.
But Bronia says...
Your sister doesn't know everything.
Hmm? Kiss me.
Did you feel that?
No.
That was the sound of the world turning in a new direction.
The Marya Sklodowska direction.
I can't feel it.
Kiss me again.
Now...
...can you feel it?
Yes. Yes...
...I think I did.
You cured me.
Sorry, that took longer than I thought.
Are you feeling better?
I've decided, my experiments can cope perfectly well
without your equipment.
When we were working with crystals,
we needed to be able to measure microscopic amounts of charge.
And nothing worked
until I built this.
It's a quadrant electrometer.
It's capable of measuring, precisely,
the tiny amounts of electrical charge in a material.
It measures electrical potential?
Your equipment isn't good enough.
Mine is.
Your science is brilliant, but so is mine.
You're proposing a partnership?
That's exactly what I'm doing.
Well, basically, it's just a question of dissolving.
My husband is looking at me disapprovingly again.
I'm doing nothing of the sort.
You think I'm asking stupid questions
to your eminent friends.
Your questions aren't stupid. Really.
My mother told me, never marry a brilliant man.
You'll disappoint them and they'll disappoint you.
And why will I disappoint you?
By failing to avoid making her feel inadequate,
I would suspect.
This woman can stay.
No, I'll clear. You're asking questions.
- So, you... - Thank you.
...you take the ore... and you dissolve into it...
Well, we take the pitchblende,
which is a special ore
that comes all the way from a mine in Bohemia,
and then we use a scientific process
to remove the elements we know we can remove
and look at what's left.
And what scientific processes might you use?
These are very good questions.
We crush it, which is extremely hard work.
Then we boil it, which results in the removal of substance.
We add acidic and alkaline solutions to it...
...until only that which is pure remains.
And there's a lot of substance to remove.
- And it will be worth it. - It's very exciting.
And why are you looking at uranium in the first place?
Becquerel.
A more than competent scientist.
Becquerel discovered, accidentally,
that uranium salts, wrapped in a black cloth, left in a drawer,
left an impression on a photographic plate.
And he thought that the uranium
was having an unusual chemical reaction
with something in the atmosphere.
I say it's the element itself.
- A very radical thought. - I still don't understand.
Imagine a grape. How do you turn a grape into wine?
- You crush it and ferment it. - Yes.
So, imagine a grape crushes itself, ferments itself,
changes its very being.
And what if I told you that as the grape turns itself into wine
it releases a powerful surge of energy,
power that can make things happen.
You'd be excited, am I right?
- I think so. Yes, I would. - So, science is changing
and the very people who are running science
are the people who believed the world was flat.
And I'm going to prove them wrong.
Just as Newton did.
- We are. - Thank you.
I see the way you look at me, Pierre.
How do I look at you?
Like a fermenting grape?
- I enjoyed that analogy. - It was a good analogy.
But you're right.
I do look at you in a certain way.
And sometimes
I have the feeling you look at me the same way back.
When my mother died, I couldn't speak for a week.
And people thought it was grief. It wasn't.
It was that I simply couldn't comprehend
why something so important had been taken from me.
I have been selfish my entire life, Pierre,
and if you hope to change that...
You're not selfish, you're just... self-absorbed,
and you don't like anyone to take what's yours.
I will never be the woman or the wife you want me to be.
You laugh at me?
I have been presumptuous.
I know, we hardly know each other.
I'm laughing because
you've denied me the chance to propose to you.
- Oh yes, I have, haven't I? - Mm-hmm.
Well, as a matter of scientific interest,
was proposing even your intention?
Well, as a matter of scientific interest,
the thought wasn't fully formed in my head yet.
As you say, we hardly know each other.
But yes, I suspect it was.
Marie Sklodowska...
...you are better than any woman I could have hoped for...
...and I'll never consider you my woman.
And I would like to share my life with you.
Thank you very much.
This way, please.
Don't move.
Remind me whenever I forget that we should leave Paris
as often as humanly possible.
We should experience all the world has to offer.
Remind me to retrain you
out of that glorious need to overstate everything.
I thought I was finished with women.
What?
From what you've told me, you barely started with women.
I mean, I thought I just wanted to concentrate on science.
You do love these portentous phrases, don't you?
But you turned me round.
I think you drugged me into compliance.
I did no such thing.
You're just extraordinary.
This is entirely ridiculous.
I'm carrying you over the threshold.
You're blindfolding me over the threshold
which requires far less effort on your part than mine.
The Académie has, in honour of our wedding...
And because they're excited by our work.
...decided to furnish us with new lodgings
in which to deal with - big step -
the pitchblende at our disposal.
Then why do I need to be blindfolded?
More exciting.
Ready?
Hello, Paul.
- Welcome to Versailles. - This is...
It's not quite what we wished for, but...
- It's a lean-to. - Wait till you see inside.
This is...
Isn't it?
Come in.
- They've outdone themselves. - They have, haven't they?
Hello?
I have an order for Marie Sklodowska?
It's Marie Curie now, but this is the right place.
I'll put it in the yard, shall I?
Thanks.
Is it the pitchblende?
- Careful. - I am careful.
Again.
Irène?
Irène.
- The distil? - Just finishing.
Yes.
Here.
Shh, Paul.
That's radium.
Radium?
A pinprick of radium.
Gathered from four tonnes of pitchblende.
There's more to find, but...
Isn't it the most beautiful thing you've ever seen?
And you're sure? You're sure of it?
I'm certain.
Yes.
It's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.
Well, I guess everything changes now, doesn't it?
Yes.
Shh!
We thought we would find a new element.
We were wrong.
It's taken four years,
four tonnes of pitchblende,
40 tonnes of corrosive chemicals
and 400 tonnes of water.
We are here to present to you two new elements:
polonium and radium.
We all thought that atoms were finite and stable.
Well, it turns out some of them are not,
and in their instability... they emit rays.
I have called this... "radioactivity".
We are here to tell you that you have fundamentally
misunderstood the atom.
Extraordinary.
Keep still.
Well done. Fantastic.
Bravo! Sublime!
Bravo, Madame Curie!
Bravo!
Lady or a man?
A lady, obviously.
She's side-saddle, of course.
- Hello. - Hello.
- Have you ordered? - No.
- Champagne. - Champagne?
Of course, sir.
- What? - I've got it.
- You've got it? What? - I'm a Professor.
- You are? Oh, Pierre! - I am.
Finally they realise I have something to offer.
- Be careful. - Oh!
Why?
- No? - Yes.
I'm Professor Curie and I'm going to have two children.
Daddy!
Congratulations, Professor Curie.
Where are we going?
I'm taking you somewhere I think you're going to like.
But I'm tired, I'm pregnant and it's freezing.
Loie Fuller has invited us to a seance.
Loie Fuller? Spiritualism? Oh, you cannot be serious.
It's a science like any other.
Don't talk such rot.
There's nothing to see or analyse.
You can't see radioactivity.
Yeah, but that's completely different.
Good evening, Loie.
We live in a world...
...where invisible light
can pass through flesh...
...and expose the bones beneath it.
Using X-gazes...
...I will call out
the presence of Beethoven as it becomes clear to me.
X-gazes? As in uranium rays?
Yes.
In a little while, the portrait of Beethoven will appear...
...on this photographic plate.
And now Beethoven is going to come back from the dead.
She's using our science to further her work.
All scientists work on previous work.
You call this science?
This could change science forever.
Do you not understand we've already changed science forever?
Yeah, it's stronger on the other.
This is definitely more refined.
We've had another submission.
- What did they want? - Radioactive smelling salts.
As a cure for baldness.
What did you say?
We don't own radium, we don't have a patent
and you are free to do as you will with it.
If we did have a patent, we'd have a bigger laboratory.
Mmm.
I know, the possibilities of science are more important...
If we owned it, then people wouldn't be able
to enjoy the possibilities of it.
But it's trusting others to see the possibilities
that I'm not sure of.
Oh, people can see the possibilities, believe me.
Radioactive matches.
For your radioactive cigarettes.
Radioactive chocolate.
Radioactive toothpaste.
There's a letter in here about radioactive beauty powder.
Loie Fuller wants us to do
a radioactive jacket for her dance.
Don't worry, I told her we don't make jackets.
Have you heard there's a dance craze on Broadway
based on our work?
"The Piff Paff Pouf".
What have we done?
What's that?
That's nothing.
Henri Danlos, the dermatologist,
came to me the other day, very excited.
He put some radium chloride on a tumour
and it showed some considerable shrinkage.
Shrinkage?
2,000 years, cancer, the uncurable illness.
Can you imagine?
They're starting a study group.
He thinks our radium could cure cancer?
Danlos is just the start.
I can feel our work glowing out.
I can feel it changing the world.
You see how soft this is?
It's like... bendy.
Mr Warner? I'm Dr Jenkins.
And you must be Peter.
Hello.
Do you know who this guy is? This guy, he's the doctor.
He's gonna make you a lot better.
And then, you know what? We're all gonna go home.
We're gonna use what's called a linear accelerator.
Linear what?
It's at the forefront of science, Mr Warner.
But you have used one before?
In this hospital, your son will be the first to use it.
Around the world, it's the fifth machine of its kind.
My child is not a monkey for your research.
Unless we find a way to make Peter better,
this cancer will grow
and it will infiltrate all his major organs.
This machine will shrink his tumour, I guarantee it.
If it will shrink it enough, I can't say.
But it will substantially improve
your child's chances to survive.
I wanna see it.
Of course you do.
It's bigger than I expected.
It's a machine with an incredible amount of power
inside it. It needs to be big.
Wait, he... he's gonna be inside it?
No. No.
He'll be strapped in here.
He'll be strapped.
It's just so he doesn't move.
We need to be very precise as we use rays.
Will he be in pain?
Mr Warner, this machine will improve your son's life.
And it may even save it.
Okay.
Stay still, son.
Bad news? Is it bad news?
No, it's not bad news. It went well.
It... worked? You mean he's better?
It's a long road, Mr Warner, but we got off to a good start.
- Would you like to see him? - Yeah.
I swear, this is the last time I come here.
Just wait and see.
Pierre?
Shh. She needs silence for the ectoplasm to appear.
What?
- Is the radium hurting you? - No, I took it off.
It did prove to heat the flesh. Turned it grey, look.
- There's a lesion. - Pierre.
It's fascinating.
She's a complete fraud.
And they have formed some sort of mysterious friendship.
He has promised to weigh her
before, during and after the sessions
to see if there is a spirit that's really... coming in.
- I think you're jealous. - I am not jealous. I'm...
I'm outraged because I think
he should take what we do far more seriously.
- Oh, heavens. Come. - What?
He'll recognise me.
We're on the front of the newspaper.
He'll recognise me.
People can't believe that I'm the sister
- of the famous Madame Curie. - Fame is for idiots.
And look, it seems to have given Pierre some very strange ideas.
Well, allow him to be strange.
- Enjoy his enjoyment. - But spiritualism?
- Faith isn't such a bad thing. - I have faith.
I have faith in humanity, I have faith in progress,
but faith in an afterlife
has no scientific foundation whatsoever.
You never think that Mother might be...
...somewhere better than this?
I do.
In a hole in the ground, in Poland.
A place far superior to Paris.
Marya, you are so cynical.
No, my dear, just realistic.
Who are you writing to?
They want to give me the Legion of Honour
- so I'm responding. - What's your response?
Well, I've asked them to thank the minister
but I do not feel the need to be decorated at all.
I do, however, have the greatest need for a better laboratory.
- You're coughing a lot. - Am I?
Marie...
Don't take me to hospital. I won't go to hospital.
Well, wait here.
Forceps, please.
No!
Now, I need you to push.
- I can't. I can't. - Just breathe, madame.
It's almost there.
Baby needs to turn.
Shh.
I thought we'd lost her.
The famous Marie Curie needed help
and everyone came running.
She should have died.
But they saved her.
And you.
Eve.
Irène.
What are you thinking about?
I don't know.
You're not thinking about anything?
I don't know.
You must always be thinking about something.
What are you thinking about?
Things you're too young to understand.
Our work has been nominated for the Nobel Prize.
For our discovery of radioactivity.
The commendation only mentions my name.
- And... - And?
And I told them if there's a Nobel Prize to win,
we win it together.
Oh, Paul, I need a chair.
What time is it?
Ten after twelve.
- What time is it in Sweden? - Ten after twelve.
Are you sure this is where you want to be?
It seems...
It seems the right place.
Here the question can be raised
whether mankind will benefit...
Whether mankind benefits...
Are you ready, Mr Curie?
No.
It can be thought that radium may become very dangerous
in criminal hands.
This is Colonel Tibbets on the Enola Gay.
Do you receive, Washington? Over.
'Receiving you, Colonel Tibbets. Over.'
Washington, Captain Robert Lewis
has just informed me Little Boy is now live.
Permission to drop. Over.
'Permission granted, Colonel. Over.'
Here the question can be raised whether mankind
benefits from knowing the secrets of nature,
whether it is ready to profit from them
or whether this knowledge will not be harmful to it.
On my mark.
Three.
Two.
Mark.
The example of the discoveries of Nobel is characteristic
as high-power explosives have enabled man
to perform wonderful work.
They are also a terrible means of destruction
in the hands of great criminals
who would lead the peoples towards war.
I am one of those who believe, with Nobel,
that mankind will derive more good than harm
from these new discoveries.
- You're back. - I am.
And was it everything you hoped it would be?
Yes.
Did you get all the acclamation you felt you deserved?
My speech was entirely about you and your work.
But I'm just the wife, isn't that right?
When have I ever treated you like that?
I am the wife of Pierre Curie.
You said you didn't care about professional accomplishment,
you only cared about achievement.
I was the one who fought...
And I'm doing what a wife should do,
giving you children and keeping your home.
We should get out of Paris. Paris pollutes us both.
How dare you? How dare take my brilliance?
How dare you take their applause?
We should get out and get some air.
"I am one of those who believe, with Nobel,
- "that mankind derives..." - No, I made it clear.
"...more good than harm from the new discoveries."
I made it absolutely clear that it was our work!
You stole my brilliance and you made it your own!
You should never have gone without me!
You had just given birth. You were too ill to travel.
And you didn't even want to go!
What was I supposed to do?
This is bigger than both of us, Marie.
And someone had to be there to represent the achievement!
You never did understand! You were angry
because they didn't want you as one of their own!
Oh, you fathom me so well.
I was angry because they were wrong.
But I never wanted any of this.
I just wanted to do good science.
And didn't I make you a better scientist?
Are we not better scientists together?
Of course we are.
Because you have one of the finest minds I've ever met.
It just so happens that my mind is finer.
Ha!
Your main problem, Marie, is your arrogance.
My main problem is you...
...and the fact that I love you so utterly.
It's not that I don't understand what there is between us.
It's because I don't understand what my life was without you.
Even when I think of myself as a boy...
...somehow, you're there.
I wish you'd have been in Sweden with me.
I wish we could have been together.
I'm sick, Marie.
I'm sick.
When I cough, there's blood.
Let's get out of Paris, and rest, and get better.
- What about the lab? - The lab can wait.
- Let's save ourselves. - There's too much to do.
Please, Marie. Please.
Pierre, don't go too far.
Marya.
Marya. Where are you?
Watch out!
Whoa!
Hello, old friend.
Hello.
Good. And we all have copies of that?
Welcome, Madame Curie.
I do not know why I'm here.
You're here because the panel would like to consider you
for Professor Curie's position at the university.
You wish to give me Pierre's seat?
We don't want to give you anything.
We're interviewing a number of candidates
and we thought due consideration should be given
to you taking the post.
And if I don't want the post?
Then that is one less candidate for us to consider.
I'd wish to be considered on my own merits.
If you wish to give it to me out of pity, don't.
If you wish to give it to me to follow some agenda or other,
don't.
- Well, what say you... - I have nothing else to say.
It is not a job I want but it is a job I will take.
And if my science doesn't speak for itself
with regard to my quality
then you have gravely misunderstood my science.
I apologise, gentlemen.
Characteristic behaviour, I'm afraid.
It's an achievement, Marie.
First female professor at the Sorbonne.
A promotion well overdue for France's, the world's,
first female Nobel Prize winner.
Nobel Prize. Do you remember, I wasn't even nominated?
It was Pierre who fought for me,
who fought for our work to be recognised.
Without him I never would have won.
He was everything to me, and now he's gone,
and I'm...
...I am lost.
- This will pass, Marie. - No, it won't.
- You're being very strong. - I'm bored of strong.
I don't want to be strong. I want to be weak.
Well, Pierre wouldn't want that.
You think you can talk for him?
I miss him, too.
Right, here she comes.
Bravo.
I want to tell you about radium.
A most peculiar and remarkable element,
because it does not behave as it should.
Ladies and gentlemen, will you take your seats, please?
It's very important that you put your goggles on.
We call this place the Doom Town.
It seems an extraordinary amount of work.
The dummies are dressed by JC Penney.
Better dressed than me, the boys and I joke.
Do things need to be this precise?
Pretty cool, huh?
Oh, no, no...
Oh, sorry, everyone.
- It's no problem. - I do apologise.
Glasses.
There are those that say that my radium is making them sick.
Are you sick?
No.
You?
Yes.
Anaemia.
But there's no proof. There's no proof.
There are those that say
that it might be the thing that weakened my Pierre,
that made him unable to roll out of the way.
Pierre's skull was crushed.
He wasn't... radium wouldn't have caused that.
I can't do anything without him.
- He'd want you to. - I know.
He'd expect it of you. I expect it of you, too.
You are the best woman I've ever met.
The best person.
I know what you have lost, Marie.
Pierre once said to me
that he couldn't imagine life without me.
And I never said anything back.
And I should have.
Do you need feeding?
No.
Well, run along then.
The Polish woman...
Extraordinary how she fancies she is appearing...
Radioactivity is the spontaneous emission of radiation
or particles from the decay of nuclei,
which, due to a particular arrangement
of their internal structure, are far more unstable.
It refers to particles which are emitted from nuclei
as a result of nuclear instability.
That's all. Thank you.
- It's not as bad as it sounds. - Do we know who's involved?
- There are two. - Two?
Marcel Demalander and Maurice Demenitroux.
They were preparing thorium X.
- Thorium X, for who? - Some factory outside Paris.
Maurice had been ill for quite some time.
- With what? - Leukaemia.
And Marcel?
He has anaemia. Severe anaemia.
And there is a direct link?
Well, of course there's a direct link.
These are radiation-led complications.
These cases are appearing with greater and greater regularity.
We were never unaware.
Well, now we need to be more aware.
Lost your husband so thought you'd take mine?
The great Marie Curie.
Reduced to a thief.
Oh!
No.
You're not Marie Curie.
You don't even deserve that name.
Your name is Marya Sklodowska and you are Polish.
A dirty Pole.
The dirty Pole that invented a poison
that the world thought marvellous!
But I know what you are!
I heard her.
And yet you stayed inside?
You wanted me to join you out there, and add wood to the fire?
The logical thing was to stay inside, so I stayed inside.
I'm sorry she said those things.
Don't be.
- Marie? - What?
What do we do now?
Four pages in this piece of nationalist rubbish.
His wife hired a private detective.
They stole our letters.
She gave them to the papers and encouraged them to print them.
It was little bits of advice I gave him,
mainly on denying her pleasure.
The papers seem outraged
by the idea that women might have pleasure in their lives.
But these intimate pleasures...
- You're talking here of... - Of sex, yes.
Did she really just say that?
I've shocked you.
- Marie... - And everyone else.
You haven't shocked me.
You just shouldn't be writing about these things.
They're... intimate.
They're not to be written of.
- People are looking. - They've always looked.
Not like this. Not with hate.
She shows no remorse.
Typical Pole.
Get out of France, you filthy immigrant!
Polish scum!
Go back to your own country!
Dirty Pole!
Jews are all the same!
Marie, may I have a word?
- Can't it wait? - No.
She's told me if I go home this can all be over.
I'm thoroughly convinced this will never be over.
I don't want her to hurt you anymore.
I think the damage to me is probably permanent
whatever you persuade her to do.
Marie, you said you would never love me.
- Pierre wouldn't want me... - I would say it's a mistake
to cite his name in this conversation, wouldn't you?
You're not abandoning me. I'm not a lost dog.
You're just leaving me to find my own way.
- Now go, be valiant. - Marie...
Just don't ask me to pity you as you do so.
They've closed it.
She died...
...so they closed it.
I never thought this place, I never thought...
...what she did had any merit.
You're a scientist.
She was an artist
or... a something.
I don't know quite what she was.
She died?
Loie, will you help me?
I didn't understand this place and you did, and I...
Can you do what she did?
I'd like you to make my husband appear.
I don't think even she promised that.
Please will you make my husband appear?
Please will you make my hus... hus...
Please can you... make... my... husband appear?
Please can you make my husband appear?
- Come on! - Come on, come on.
Get him out! Go, go, go!
Straight ahead.
So, he's leaving you?
He was... not strong enough.
He's certainly not strong enough for the press.
These so-called nationalists
calling you a dirty Pole, dirty Jew.
I've tried to tell them I'm a dirty Catholic,
and a dirty lapsed Catholic at that, but...
...they won't listen.
Marya...
...I'm going home.
To Poland.
- Will you come with me? - I belong here.
Well, they don't think so.
France is Irène and Eve's home.
Irène and Eve would love Poland.
My work is here.
Poland has changed.
You would be venerated, celebrated.
Pierre is buried here.
They stand outside your house screaming for you to leave.
When have other people's opinions ever affected
anything I've done?
- Go home! - France for the French!
Polish scum!
Rotten Pole!
Dirty Jew!
Your growth is slowing, Eve.
Is it?
And Irène is growing faster than ever.
Well, I've big teeth.
So you do.
- Telegram, madame. - Thank you.
Interesting?
The Royal Swedish Academy of Science has seen fit to...
I have been awarded the Nobel Prize again.
This time for chemistry.
- For what? - For my extraction
of the elements of radium and polonium.
- Congratulations, Mother. - Congratulations, Mother.
And they have suggested that I do not come
to avoid unnecessary controversy.
Well...
Here, let me measure your head, Eve.
Come here, sweetie.
We were so pleased you were able to make it to Sweden, Mrs Curie.
- Were you? - Oh, yes.
The Women's Movement in Stockholm
supported you with great strength and conviction.
Have you all that you need?
Yes, I have... everything I need.
- They don't like you here. - Nonsense.
They're merely having a hard time
separating my scientific life from my personal life.
Why don't they like your personal life?
What will you talk of, in your speech?
- Personal things? - No.
The chemistry of the imponderable.
- Bravo! - Bravo.
Bravo, Madame Curie.
Bravo.
Bravo!
Some 15 years ago
the radiation of uranium was discovered by Henri Becquerel
and two years later the study of this phenomenon
was extended to other substances, first by me
and then by Pierre Curie...
...and myself.
'This study rapidly led us to the discovery of new elements
'the radiation of which,
'while being analogous to that of uranium,
'was far more intense.
'Thanks to this discovery
'of new, very powerfully radioactive substances
'the study of radioactivity
'progresses with marvellous rapidity.'
Irène, where are you taking me?
Wait and see, Mama.
Stop here, driver.
- Irène, I won't... - I know.
- Then why am I here? - Because you need to see it.
You think the war is something separate to you?
Of course it is.
You think you can't help?
Irène, I'm ill. I'm female.
I can't see myself being much use to anyone.
But give me a gun and I'll try.
This country is at war.
And the medical services are a disaster.
I won't go inside your hospital.
I know, Mother.
So I'm bringing it outside to you.
- This is Franck. - Hello, Franck.
He's had both his legs amputated.
This is Pascal.
Hello, Pascal.
He's had both his arms amputated.
- Irène... - And this is Gabriel.
Irène!
I don't want to look at them like exhibits in a museum.
They are chopping these boys up.
They don't have the facilities to do otherwise.
It's tragic. What do you want me to do about it?
You're Marie Curie.
It's time to make this war your war.
Please.
As Senior Science Minister in the Government,
- I must tell you... - Young boys are dying.
As Senior Scientist Minister...
Science. Science Minister.
My apologies, Senior Science Minister.
I see your sense of superiority has stayed with you.
Professor Lippmann, you have never liked me.
It's not a question of liking or disliking.
Quite. It's a question of respect,
and you have respected me now.
With a mobile radiography unit, we can be X-raying troops
before deciding whether they need amputation.
Surely you can see...
Madame Curie, all I can see is an impractical measure
proposed by a woman I know to be eminently practical.
I need funds, I need access,
I need the ability to go out on the battlefields.
You must grant it me.
And why, pray, must I do that?
Partly because it is right. Partly because I am needed.
But mostly, mostly because I am sick and tired.
I cough blood most nights and this is my last fight.
And I will win it.
We're both tired, Madame Curie.
Mother, if you could look at him
like he hasn't done you a personal affront,
- I'd greatly appreciate it. - I don't mind.
Course you do.
You just won't say because you're mild-mannered.
But Mother isn't so fierce as she can't adjust her behaviour.
- You have a PhD? - This isn't a job interview.
- Do you have a PhD? - Shut up, Eve!
I do. I do have a PhD.
- And your thesis was on? - Mother!
Mr Joliot, do you have interesting observations
to make about the weather, about... the political system,
about the transport system?
No.
Do you love science?
Of course I love science.
I love your daughter and I love science.
He loves your daughter.
Let us take your love for my daughter as read
and talk of science.
I would love to.
You are impossible.
So, tell me what you have been working on, Mr Joliot.
I've been working with Irène, actually.
We've been working in the belief
that maybe radioactivity can be taken a few steps further.
Can it now?
Carry on.
In those atoms where radioactivity
doesn't naturally occur, maybe it can be induced.
What have you been working with?
Lighter elements, boron and aluminium.
We're bombarding them with alpha particles
and getting a reading after we stopped.
If we can show the reaction...
Then you have shown the possibility
of artificial radiation.
This is exciting work.
I think so, too.
I think we like him.
I will get those ambulances.
And I will outfit them and I will get them ready
but I won't work on them.
And I don't want you to either.
But, Mother...
No, death is not good for a young person to see.
And I don't think you should be involved with Frédéric's work.
As exciting as it seems, radiation is not safe. And...
In fact, I want you to stay away from him.
But you've spent your entire life...
Surrounded by death and radiation.
Yes. And...
...they've brought me very little happiness.
I want better for you.
Night-night.
Madame Curie.
Mademoiselle Curie.
What an honour it is for you to grace me with your presence.
Hm.
Your exploits are a credit to France, madame.
We are here to ask for funds.
Ah, yes. Professor Lippmann has explained to me your situation.
I'm afraid your request for funds cannot be granted.
Consider these as part payment.
Melt them down, use them for the war effort.
These are your Nobel Prizes, madame.
And they're made of pure gold.
Which is a start, don't you think?
Madame Curie, these prizes are the pride of France,
- I will not... - These prizes are the result
of pain and they seem to have caused pain.
And I would rather they be used for something useful,
like curing others from pain.
Well, I think this is...
Boys are having their legs sawn off because of sprained ankles.
My X-ray machines, properly installed, can save lives.
We will also use radon radiation to cauterise wounds.
It is quick, efficient and can stop blood loss.
But radon...
Our proposals will give you more men on your battlefields.
But radon is a gas, Madame Curie.
I am perfectly aware of that.
And that's why we will use bulbs. Radon bulbs.
The Minister of War has made his position clear.
Then let me make mine clear.
I will go to the press.
I will offer them my Nobel Prize metal.
I will give them the same ultimatum.
The press?
I know perfectly well what the press is capable of.
And I believe that I have learnt how to use it to my advantage.
Now, will you please give me my X-ray machines and ambulances?
You're quite a competent driver. Who taught you?
I learned.
I wasn't much of a mother, was I?
What does that have to do with anything right now?
I'm very proud of you.
Thank you.
I'm very proud of you, too.
It must have been so difficult,
being a woman and doing all that you did.
Believe me, my love, I suffered much more
from lack of resources and funds
than I ever did from being a woman.
Now, are you still working with Frédéric
on his artificial radiation theory?
It's not his theory.
It's ours.
And of course I'm still working with Frédéric.
Now, can we concentrate on the matter in hand?
Absolutely.
Mama.
Help me with this. It's very heavy.
Now, if you check the bulb. And be careful, it's delicate.
Of course.
Get the water!
There's been a fire.
We need everyone. Quickly now.
We're just outfitting this ambulance.
You don't understand.
We need everyone. Get in the van. Help.
Mother, the time has come.
Morphine here!
A red ribbon for him?
We have to make rational decisions about who we can save.
They say they can't save him.
- What do you think? - What?
Irène, you're only 18 years old
but you're the most capable doctor here. What do you think?
I think we should take him to hospital.
'Marya, are you frightened?'
Water?
Sorry?
Would you like some water?
I hate hospitals.
I know.
I had to say goodbye to my mother in a hospital.
I know.
So I found a way of making people better
from outside a hospital.
You did.
I did, didn't I?
Didn't I?
I think we should leave here, don't you?
No, there's too much to do.
Well, let's start by leaving the hospital.
I used to have such beautiful hands.
The radiation has crippled your bones.
The things that make us weak are the things that make us strong.
- I didn't make you weak. - Of course you did.
But I couldn't have...
Well, we couldn't have done what we did without each other.
No, you did the extraordinary.
You changed the world.
In the right way?
I'd rather be someone
that hopes the world is full of light
than fears for the darkness out there, wouldn't you?
But I...
You threw a stone in the water.
The ripples, you can't control.
There are things to be scared of, but...
...there's so much to celebrate.
I hope you're right.
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