Compass Rose vs National Theatre Live: Antigone

National Theatre Live: Antigone has the higher audience score (10/10 against 3.6/10 for Compass Rose). Compass Rose is the shorter watch at 1h 13m compared with 1h 32m. Compass Rose is the older of the two (1967 against 2012). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Compass Rose posterCompass Rose1967 VS National Theatre Live: Antigone posterNational Theatre Live: Antigone2012
Compass RoseNational Theatre Live: Antigone
Audience score★ 3.6/10★ 10.0/10
Year19672012
Length1h 13m1h 32m
GenresDramaDrama
Country––
DirectorAndy MilliganPolly Findlay
Main castAnthony Moscini, Hal Borske, Anne Linden, Candy Hammond, Joe DaviesAnnabel Scholey, Christopher Eccleston, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Alfred Enoch, Jodie Whittaker

Synopsis

Compass Rose

Andy Milligan's off-Broadway spoof. This uncompleted movie was partially shot in New York's legendary underground theater, the Caffe Cino.

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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