Living Bad vs National Theatre Live: Antigone
National Theatre Live: Antigone has the higher audience score (10/10 against 5.6/10 for Living Bad). National Theatre Live: Antigone is the shorter watch at 1h 32m compared with 2h 4m. National Theatre Live: Antigone is the older of the two (2012 against 2023). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Living Bad
National Theatre Live: Antigone| Living Bad | National Theatre Live: Antigone | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 5.6/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2023 | 2012 |
| Length | 2h 4m | 1h 32m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | João Canijo | Polly Findlay |
| Main cast | Beatriz Batarda, Anabela Moreira, Rita Blanco, Nuno Lopes, Leonor Vasconcelos | Annabel Scholey, Christopher Eccleston, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Alfred Enoch, Jodie Whittaker |
Synopsis
Living Bad
A hotel by the northern shore of Portugal welcomes its guests over the weekend. A man is torn between being present for his wife and the space that his mother takes up between the two of them. A mother encourages her daughter’s marriage to enable her own love affair with her son-in-law. Another mother lives through her daughter, preventing her from making her own decisions. Three families at the end of their cycles of acceptance.
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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