Heal the Living vs National Theatre Live: Antigone

National Theatre Live: Antigone has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.5/10 for Heal the Living). 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 2016). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Heal the Living posterHeal the Living2016 VS National Theatre Live: Antigone posterNational Theatre Live: Antigone2012
Heal the LivingNational Theatre Live: Antigone
Audience score★ 6.5/10★ 10.0/10
Year20162012
Length1h 44m1h 32m
GenresDramaDrama
Country––
DirectorKatell QuillévéréPolly Findlay
Main castAndranic Manet, Tahar Rahim, Emmanuelle Seigner, Bouli Lanners, Alice TaglioniAnnabel Scholey, Christopher Eccleston, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Alfred Enoch, Jodie Whittaker

Synopsis

Heal the Living

The intersecting lives of teens on a surfing trip, a woman with a weak heart and two teams of doctors and medical experts.

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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