Hidden Away vs National Theatre Live: Antigone

National Theatre Live: Antigone has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.5/10 for Hidden Away). National Theatre Live: Antigone is the shorter watch at 1h 32m compared with 2h . National Theatre Live: Antigone is the older of the two (2012 against 2020). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Hidden Away posterHidden Away2020 VS National Theatre Live: Antigone posterNational Theatre Live: Antigone2012
Hidden AwayNational Theatre Live: Antigone
Audience score★ 7.5/10★ 10.0/10
Year20202012
Length2h 1h 32m
GenresDramaDrama
Country––
DirectorGiorgio DirittiPolly Findlay
Main castElio Germano, Orietta Notari, Gianni Fantoni, Oliver Ewy, Leonardo CarrozzoAnnabel Scholey, Christopher Eccleston, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Alfred Enoch, Jodie Whittaker

Synopsis

Hidden Away

The film tackles the life journey of Toni Ligabue, visionary naïf painter who used to draw tigers, lions and jaguars while living among the poplar trees of the boundless Po valley. A harsh life that is a fairy tale too, as a lonely and marginalized kid finds redemption in his art, and a way to express himself and be admired by the world.

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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