Widow Clicquot tells the story of Barbe Nicole Clicquot, the woman who defied the patriarchy in the early 1800s to engineer the success of the Veuve Clicquot champagne family after her husband’s death. Haley Bennett starred as the widow.
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Rebecca, based on the 1938 novel by Daphne Du Maurier, is a British retelling of the classic Gothic mystery. Back in my day, everyone read Rebecca in high school. Perhaps the current generation isn’t so familiar with the story. I’ll
Radioactive is the true story of Marie Curie, the discoverer of radium and polonium, winner of two Nobel Prizes, and a pioneering researcher into radioactivity.
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Suite Française is a different enough war story to be interesting for that reason alone, but it’s also beautifully well-done and acted. Beware the spoilers.
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