L'albero vs National Theatre Live: Antigone

National Theatre Live: Antigone has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.4/10 for L'albero). National Theatre Live: Antigone is the older of the two (2012 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

L'albero posterL'albero2025 VS National Theatre Live: Antigone posterNational Theatre Live: Antigone2012
L'alberoNational Theatre Live: Antigone
Audience score★ 6.4/10★ 10.0/10
Year20252012
Length1h 32m1h 32m
GenresDramaDrama
Country––
DirectorSara PetragliaPolly Findlay
Main castCarlotta Gamba, Cristina Pellegrino, Tecla Insolia, Yamina BrirmiAnnabel Scholey, Christopher Eccleston, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Alfred Enoch, Jodie Whittaker

Synopsis

L'albero

Bianca is 23 years old, and it already feels like too much. She has left her parents' home and is supposed to attend university, but she never goes. She has a few specific obsessions: the passing of time, cocaine, and Angelica. Since they started living together, everything seems to move faster, spiraling downwards. Even their friendship stumbles into addiction and becomes confused with love. Bianca keeps a notebook, jotting down notes for her…

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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