I've Loved You So Long vs National Theatre Live: Antigone

National Theatre Live: Antigone has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.3/10 for I've Loved You So Long). National Theatre Live: Antigone is the shorter watch at 1h 32m compared with 1h 55m. I've Loved You So Long is the older of the two (2008 against 2012). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

I've Loved You So Long posterI've Loved You So Long2008 VS National Theatre Live: Antigone posterNational Theatre Live: Antigone2012
I've Loved You So LongNational Theatre Live: Antigone
Audience score★ 7.3/10★ 10.0/10
Year20082012
Length1h 55m1h 32m
GenresDramaDrama
CountryGermany–
DirectorPhilippe ClaudelPolly Findlay
Main castFrédéric Pierrot, Kristin Scott Thomas, Elsa Zylberstein, Serge Hazanavicius, Claire JohnstonAnnabel Scholey, Christopher Eccleston, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Alfred Enoch, Jodie Whittaker

Synopsis

I've Loved You So Long

A woman struggles to interact with her family and find her place in society after spending fifteen years in prison.

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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