A similar technique of merging past, present and future runs through Radioactive, Marjane Satrapi’s unconventional biopic of pioneering scientist Madame Curie, played by Rosamund Pike.

And as the film’s narrator, she’s also the one warning us about the flights of fancy that will mark the approach of visionary writer-director Michael Almereyda ( Experimenter, Marjorie Prime). It’s Anne who tells us which scenes are made up, starting with an ice cream fight between Tesla and Edison.

Morgan (Donnie Keshawarz), and Morgan’s headstrong daughter Anne (Eve Hewson). Google searches, a Macbook and a cellphone make anachronistic cameos as Tesla mixes it up with Thomas Edison (Kyle MacLachlan), George Westinghouse (Jim Gaffigan), J.P. Or you may want to consider Tesla, which is both a corrective and a mesmerizing showcase for Ethan Hawke, playing the futurist who harnessed AC to light the eventual spark for our contemporary wireless world. If you want to be bored breathless by how Serbian inventor Nicola Tesla (1856-1943) figured into the feud between Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse over direct and alternating currents, try 2019’s The Current War.

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