Il Divo vs National Theatre Live: Antigone
National Theatre Live: Antigone has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.6/10 for Il Divo). National Theatre Live: Antigone is the shorter watch at 1h 32m compared with 1h 53m. Il Divo is the older of the two (2008 against 2012). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Il Divo
National Theatre Live: Antigone| Il Divo | National Theatre Live: Antigone | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.6/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2008 | 2012 |
| Length | 1h 53m | 1h 32m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Paolo Sorrentino | Polly Findlay |
| Main cast | Giorgio Colangeli, Anna Bonaiuto, Toni Servillo, Giovanni Vettorazzo, Massimo Popolizio | Annabel Scholey, Christopher Eccleston, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Alfred Enoch, Jodie Whittaker |
Synopsis
Il Divo
Italy, early '90s. Calm, clever and inscrutable, politician Giulio Andreotti has been synonymous with power for decades. He has survived everything: electoral battles, terrorist massacres, loss of friends, slanderous accusations; but now certain repentant mobsters implicate him in the crimes of Cosa Nostra.
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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