Pierre and Marie
Les palmes de M. Schutz
France
1997
106 Min
Color
French
Synopsis
In the final years of the 19th century, Pierre Curie would be spending peaceful and studious days in his laboratory at the Paris Physics and Chemistry School with his colleague Gustave Bémont, were it not for the head of the school, Mr Schutz. The latter is obsessed by academic honours and hounds Curie for communiqués that will make good impression on the members of the Science Academy. In this way, Mr Schutz hopes to obtain the prestigious Academic Palm for himself. Schutz’s latest idea to increase the lab’s activity is a Polish student named Marie Sklodowska whom Pierre Curie is obliged to accept. Marie soon has the sky, reserved and upright research scientist wrapped around her little finger. Before he even realizes what is happening, Pierre sees his laboratory turned into a kitchen where Slavic dishes simmer on the stove, where dynamite is made for Polish resistance fighters and an equally explosive herb vodka steeps in bottles. Once things have calmed down, Pierre finds out that Marie has great scientific skills and, both to satisfy Schutz and to face the toughest scientific problems of the day, Pierre and Marie get to work and discover, in succession, radioactivity, radium and, in the process, true love. —uniFrance
Director
Claude Pinoteau
The director Claude Pinoteau was born into the filmworld because his father Lucien Pinoteau was a well-known director for Pathé. Claude Pinoteau began his film career as a director assistant for Jean-Pierre Melville, Max Ophuls and René Clair, an activity he practised for more than 20 years.
To these movies belong “Les enfants terribles” (50), “Lola Montès” (55), “Le triporteur” (57), “Le jour et l’heure” (63), “Cent mille dollars au soleil” (64), “La vingt-cinquième heure” (67) and “Le voyou” (70). He also wrote scripts from 1969 for “Un homme qui me plaît” (69) and “Le voyou” (70), from 1973 he also directed his first movies which were very successful.
To his well-known movies as a director belong “Le silencieux” (73), “La gifle” (74), the unexpected success “La boum” (82), the sequel “La boum 2” (82), “L’étudiante” (88) and “La neige et le feu” (91). His brother Jacques Pinoteau became also a director. —cyranos.ch read more
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