Body Odyssey vs National Theatre Live: Antigone

National Theatre Live: Antigone has the higher audience score (10/10 against 1/10 for Body Odyssey). National Theatre Live: Antigone is the shorter watch at 1h 32m compared with 1h 46m. National Theatre Live: Antigone is the older of the two (2012 against 2023). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Body Odyssey posterBody Odyssey2023 VS National Theatre Live: Antigone posterNational Theatre Live: Antigone2012
Body OdysseyNational Theatre Live: Antigone
Audience score★ 1.0/10★ 10.0/10
Year20232012
Length1h 46m1h 32m
GenresDramaDrama
CountryItaly–
DirectorGrazia TricaricoPolly Findlay
Main castJun Ichikawa, Julian Sands, Nicolo Pasetti, Maximilian Dirr, Lukas LoughranAnnabel Scholey, Christopher Eccleston, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Alfred Enoch, Jodie Whittaker

Synopsis

Body Odyssey

Mona, a bodybuilder, looks like a woman obsessed by an unshapely ideal. The body is her inseparable container, her most faithful ally, her partner responding to laments. Together they find themselves on the threshold of their destiny.

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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