Days and Nights in the Forest vs National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies

National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies has the higher audience score (9/10 against 7/10 for Days and Nights in the Forest). Days and Nights in the Forest is the shorter watch at 1h 57m compared with 2h 15m. Days and Nights in the Forest is the older of the two (1970 against 2023). Both are comedy, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Days and Nights in the Forest posterDays and Nights in the Forest1970 VS National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies posterNational Theatre Live: Best of Enemies2023
Days and Nights in the ForestNational Theatre Live: Best of Enemies
Audience score★ 7.0/10★ 9.0/10
Year19702023
Length1h 57m2h 15m
GenresComedy, DramaComedy, Drama, History
Country–United Kingdom
DirectorSatyajit RayJeremy Herrin
Main castSharmila Tagore, Aparna Sen, Soumitra Chatterjee, Samit Bhanja, Subhendu ChatterjeeSam Otto, David Harewood, Zachary Quinto, Clare Foster, Syrus Lowe

Synopsis

Days and Nights in the Forest

Four friends from Calcutta who have very different personalities make a holiday excursion into the country, to a tiny village in the state of Bihar where they set themselves up in a bungalow. A series of minor events, all connected to their respective reactions to their new environment, reveals their characters more deeply.

National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies

In 1968 America, as two men fight to become the next president, all eyes are on the battle between two others: the cunningly conservative William F. Buckley Jr., and the unruly liberal Gore Vidal. During a new nightly television format, they debate the moral landscape of a shattered nation.

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