The Atom: A Love Affair

2019

English

6.3

♡ 2

100%

Vicki Lesley Director

Lily Cole as Narrator

Bernard Ingham as Self

Mark Hertsgaard as Self

Jürgen Trittin as Self

With a wealth of fantastic archive footage and a series of revealing interviews with those who had first-hand experience, filmmaker Vicki Lesley tells the turbulent story of the West’s love-hate relationship with a nuclear power over the past seventy years. Capturing both the tantalising promise and the repeated disappointments of this singular technology, the film reveals how the post-war, romantic fantasy of an Atom-powered future developed into the stormy, on-off relationship still playing out today. A tale of scientific passion and political intrigue all wrapped up in the packaging of a sentimental screen melodrama.