Eve and the Fire Horse vs National Theatre Live: Antigone
National Theatre Live: Antigone has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.5/10 for Eve and the Fire Horse). Eve and the Fire Horse is the older of the two (2005 against 2012). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Eve and the Fire Horse
National Theatre Live: Antigone| Eve and the Fire Horse | National Theatre Live: Antigone | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.5/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2005 | 2012 |
| Length | 1h 32m | 1h 32m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Julia Kwan | Polly Findlay |
| Main cast | Vivian Wu, Chris Shields, Jessica Amlee, Tanya Champoux, Jennifer Cheon Garcia | Annabel Scholey, Christopher Eccleston, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Alfred Enoch, Jodie Whittaker |
Synopsis
Eve and the Fire Horse
Eve is a precocious nine year-old girl with a wild imagination growing up in a traditional Chinese immigrant family in Vancouver where Confucian doctrines, superstitious obsessions and divine visions abound. When Buddhism and Catholicism are thrown into the mix, life for Eve and her 11-year-old prim and authoritative sister, Karena, escalates into a fantasia of catastrophe, sainthood and cultural confusion. The journey of a young girl and her…
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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