I Only Rest in the Storm vs National Theatre Live: Antigone

National Theatre Live: Antigone has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7/10 for I Only Rest in the Storm). National Theatre Live: Antigone is the shorter watch at 1h 32m compared with 3h 31m. National Theatre Live: Antigone is the older of the two (2012 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

I Only Rest in the Storm2025 VS

National Theatre Live: Antigone2012

	I Only Rest in the Storm	National Theatre Live: Antigone
Audience score	★ 7.0/10	★ 10.0/10
Year	2025	2012
Length	3h 31m	1h 32m
Genres	Drama	Drama
Country	Portugal	–
Director	Pedro Pinho	Polly Findlay
Main cast	Cleo Diára, Sérgio Coragem, Jonathan Guilherme, Jorge Quintino Biague, Renato Sztutman	Annabel Scholey, Christopher Eccleston, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Alfred Enoch, Jodie Whittaker

Synopsis

I Only Rest in the Storm

Sergio travels to a metropolis in West Africa to work for an NGO as an environmental engineer on a road project between the desert and the forest. There, he becomes entangled in an intimate yet unbalanced relationship with two inhabitants of the city, Diara and Gui. As neo-colonial dynamics among the expatriate community unravel, this fragile bond becomes his only refuge from an impending collapse into solitude or barbarism.

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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