Fathers and Daughters vs National Theatre Live: Antigone

National Theatre Live: Antigone has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.1/10 for Fathers and Daughters). National Theatre Live: Antigone is the shorter watch at 1h 32m compared with 1h 56m. National Theatre Live: Antigone is the older of the two (2012 against 2015). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Fathers and Daughters posterFathers and Daughters2015 VS National Theatre Live: Antigone posterNational Theatre Live: Antigone2012
Fathers and DaughtersNational Theatre Live: Antigone
Audience score★ 7.1/10★ 10.0/10
Year20152012
Length1h 56m1h 32m
GenresDramaDrama
Country–United Kingdom
DirectorGabriele MuccinoPolly Findlay
Main castAaron Paul, Ryan Eggold, Bruce Greenwood, Russell Crowe, Octavia SpencerAnnabel Scholey, Christopher Eccleston, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Alfred Enoch, Jodie Whittaker

Synopsis

Fathers and Daughters

A Pulitzer-winning writer grapples with being a widower and father after a mental breakdown, while, 27 years later, his grown daughter struggles to forge connections of her own.

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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