Adore vs National Theatre Live: Antigone

National Theatre Live: Antigone has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.1/10 for Adore). National Theatre Live: Antigone is the shorter watch at 1h 32m compared with 1h 40m. National Theatre Live: Antigone is the older of the two (2012 against 2013). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Adore posterAdore2013 VS National Theatre Live: Antigone posterNational Theatre Live: Antigone2012
AdoreNational Theatre Live: Antigone
Audience score★ 6.1/10★ 10.0/10
Year20132012
Length1h 40m1h 32m
GenresDramaDrama
Country––
DirectorAnne FontainePolly Findlay
Main castBen Mendelsohn, Robin Wright, Naomi Watts, Sophie Lowe, Xavier SamuelAnnabel Scholey, Christopher Eccleston, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Alfred Enoch, Jodie Whittaker

Synopsis

Adore

Lil and Roz are two lifelong friends, having grown up together as neighbors in an idyllic beach town. As adults, their sons have developed a friendship as strong as that which binds their mothers. One summer, all four are confronted by simmering emotions that have been mounting between them, and each find unexpected happiness in relationships that cross the bounds of convention.

National Theatre Live: Antigone

In the unstable aftermath of a civil war, Creon, the new King of Thebes, asserts his authority by forbidding anyone from honouring the death of the traitor Polyneices. But Antigone, Polyneices' sister, will not obey. When Creon's authority is challenged, a gripping conflict emerges between the power of an individual and the state. Polly Findlay's electric 2012 production brings Sophocles' tragedy into the modern world as a gripping political…

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