Certain Women vs National Theatre Live: Antigone
National Theatre Live: Antigone has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6/10 for Certain Women). National Theatre Live: Antigone is the shorter watch at 1h 32m compared with 1h 47m. National Theatre Live: Antigone is the older of the two (2012 against 2016). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Certain Women
National Theatre Live: Antigone| Certain Women | National Theatre Live: Antigone | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.0/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2016 | 2012 |
| Length | 1h 47m | 1h 32m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | United States of America | – |
| Director | Kelly Reichardt | Polly Findlay |
| Main cast | James Jordan, Jared Harris, Lily Gladstone, René Auberjonois, Michelle Williams | Annabel Scholey, Christopher Eccleston, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Alfred Enoch, Jodie Whittaker |
Synopsis
Certain Women
Three strong-willed women strive to forge their own paths amidst the wide-open plains of the American Northwest: a lawyer forced to subdue a troubled client; a wife and mother whose plans to construct her dream home reveal fissures in her marriage; and a lonely ranch hand who forms an ambiguous bond with a young law student.
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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