Last Summer vs National Theatre Live: Antigone

National Theatre Live: Antigone has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.1/10 for Last Summer). National Theatre Live: Antigone is the shorter watch at 1h 32m compared with 1h 35m. Last Summer is the older of the two (1969 against 2012). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Last Summer posterLast Summer1969 VS National Theatre Live: Antigone posterNational Theatre Live: Antigone2012
Last SummerNational Theatre Live: Antigone
Audience score★ 6.1/10★ 10.0/10
Year19692012
Length1h 35m1h 32m
GenresDramaDrama
Country––
DirectorFrank PerryPolly Findlay
Main castBruce Davison, Richard Thomas, Ralph Waite, Barbara Hershey, Maeve McGuireAnnabel Scholey, Christopher Eccleston, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Alfred Enoch, Jodie Whittaker

Synopsis

Last Summer

During summer vacation on Fire Island, three young people become very close. When an uncool girl tries to infiltrate the trio's newly found relationship, they construct an elaborate plot that has violent results.

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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