Ink Wash vs National Theatre Live: Antigone

Ink Wash is the shorter watch at 1h 31m compared with 1h 32m. National Theatre Live: Antigone is the older of the two (2012 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Ink Wash posterInk Wash2025 VS National Theatre Live: Antigone posterNational Theatre Live: Antigone2012
Ink WashNational Theatre Live: Antigone
Audience score★ 0.0/10★ 10.0/10
Year20252012
Length1h 31m1h 32m
GenresDramaDrama
Country––
DirectorSarra TsorakidisPolly Findlay
Main castAna Ularu, Ilinca Harnut, Liana Margineanu, Rolando Matsangos, Ana DumitrașcuAnnabel Scholey, Christopher Eccleston, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Alfred Enoch, Jodie Whittaker

Synopsis

Ink Wash

Seeking shelter in her work from the pain of a breakup, Lena, a painter turning 40, is commissioned to decorate a brutalist luxury hotel nestled in the depths of the Romanian forest. There, where the Danube ends its course in seemingly miraculous springs, Lena’s moral views are confronted with an overwhelmingly corrupted community.

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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