BPM (Beats per Minute) vs National Theatre Live: Antigone

National Theatre Live: Antigone has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.7/10 for BPM (Beats per Minute)). National Theatre Live: Antigone is the shorter watch at 1h 32m compared with 2h 23m. National Theatre Live: Antigone is the older of the two (2012 against 2017). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

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BPM (Beats per Minute)National Theatre Live: Antigone
Audience score★ 7.7/10★ 10.0/10
Year20172012
Length2h 23m1h 32m
GenresDramaDrama
Country––
DirectorRobin CampilloPolly Findlay
Main castNahuel Pérez Biscayart, Adèle Haenel, Simon Guélat, Aloïse Sauvage, Arnaud ValoisAnnabel Scholey, Christopher Eccleston, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Alfred Enoch, Jodie Whittaker

Synopsis

BPM (Beats per Minute)

Paris, in the early 1990s: a group of young activists is desperately tied to finding the cure against an unknown lethal disease. They target the pharmaceutical labs that are retaining potential cures, and multiply direct actions, with the hope of saving their lives as well as the ones of future generations.

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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