How Deep is the Ocean vs National Theatre Live: Antigone

National Theatre Live: Antigone has the higher audience score (10/10 against 5.3/10 for How Deep is the Ocean). How Deep is the Ocean is the shorter watch at 1h 18m compared with 1h 32m. National Theatre Live: Antigone is the older of the two (2012 against 2023). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

How Deep is the Ocean posterHow Deep is the Ocean2023 VS National Theatre Live: Antigone posterNational Theatre Live: Antigone2012
How Deep is the OceanNational Theatre Live: Antigone
Audience score★ 5.3/10★ 10.0/10
Year20232012
Length1h 18m1h 32m
GenresDramaDrama
CountryAustralia–
DirectorAndrew WalshPolly Findlay
Main castOlivia Fildes, Cris Cochrane, Adam Rowland, Will Weatheritt, Cal GordonAnnabel Scholey, Christopher Eccleston, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Alfred Enoch, Jodie Whittaker

Synopsis

How Deep is the Ocean

A mysterious young drifter arrives in Melbourne and takes up residence in a boarding house. Over the next year, she struggles to adapt to the new place, while negotiating her relationships with the people around 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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