Cloud Dancer vs National Theatre Live: Antigone

National Theatre Live: Antigone has the higher audience score (10/10 against 5.6/10 for Cloud Dancer). National Theatre Live: Antigone is the shorter watch at 1h 32m compared with 1h 44m. Cloud Dancer is the older of the two (1980 against 2012). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Cloud Dancer posterCloud Dancer1980 VS National Theatre Live: Antigone posterNational Theatre Live: Antigone2012
Cloud DancerNational Theatre Live: Antigone
Audience score★ 5.6/10★ 10.0/10
Year19802012
Length1h 44m1h 32m
GenresDramaDrama
Country––
DirectorBarry BrownPolly Findlay
Main castColleen Camp, David Carradine, James T. Callahan, Salome Jens, Jennifer O'NeillAnnabel Scholey, Christopher Eccleston, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Alfred Enoch, Jodie Whittaker

Synopsis

Cloud Dancer

An aerobatic pilot comes to terms with his work, his photographer ex-lover and a brash newcomer.

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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