I Believe in Unicorns vs National Theatre Live: Antigone

National Theatre Live: Antigone has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.4/10 for I Believe in Unicorns). I Believe in Unicorns is the shorter watch at 1h 20m compared with 1h 32m. National Theatre Live: Antigone is the older of the two (2012 against 2015). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

I Believe in Unicorns posterI Believe in Unicorns2015 VS National Theatre Live: Antigone posterNational Theatre Live: Antigone2012
I Believe in UnicornsNational Theatre Live: Antigone
Audience score★ 6.4/10★ 10.0/10
Year20152012
Length1h 20m1h 32m
GenresDramaDrama
CountryUnited States of AmericaUnited Kingdom
DirectorLeah MeyerhoffPolly Findlay
Main castJohnny Sequoyah, Natalia Dyer, Julia Garner, Amy Seimetz, Peter VackAnnabel Scholey, Christopher Eccleston, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Alfred Enoch, Jodie Whittaker

Synopsis

I Believe in Unicorns

Feeling awkward and isolated, an imaginative and strong-willed teenage girl runs away from home with an older punk rock drifter.

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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