Here’s a notion that’s increasingly common in contemporary cinema from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind to Interstellar: the mysteries of love may prove more powerful than science. Affairs emotional rather than intellectual certainly power this affecting study of the marriage of theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking and Jane Wilde, played with subtle brilliance by Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones. It begins, as it were, with the happy ending. Bright boy meets clever girl at Cambridge in the early 1960s, cue eccentric courtship and euphoric May Ball sequence with cosmic pyrotechnics. Then comes Hawking’s diagnosis of the motor neurone disease variant, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. What follows is both well known – Hawking’s near miraculous persistence b