Couture vs National Theatre Live: Antigone

National Theatre Live: Antigone has the higher audience score (10/10 against 5.5/10 for Couture). National Theatre Live: Antigone is the shorter watch at 1h 32m compared with 1h 44m. National Theatre Live: Antigone is the older of the two (2012 against 2026). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

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CoutureNational Theatre Live: Antigone
Audience score★ 5.5/10★ 10.0/10
Year20262012
Length1h 44m1h 32m
GenresDramaDrama
Country––
DirectorAlice WinocourPolly Findlay
Main castElla Rumpf, Angelina Jolie, Grégoire Colin, Aurore Clément, Louis GarrelAnnabel Scholey, Christopher Eccleston, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Alfred Enoch, Jodie Whittaker

Synopsis

Couture

In the frenzy of Fashion Week, three women cross paths in Paris, grappling with the world's tragedies and the questions of their lives: Maxine, an American film director in her forties, discovers she has cancer; Ada, a young South Sudanese model, escapes a predetermined destiny to be thrust into a deceptive universe and French makeup artist Angèle, a small hand working in the shadows of the catwalks, dreams of escaping her life.

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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