Love Me Tender vs National Theatre Live: Antigone
National Theatre Live: Antigone has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.7/10 for Love Me Tender). National Theatre Live: Antigone is the shorter watch at 1h 32m compared with 2h 14m. National Theatre Live: Antigone is the older of the two (2012 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Love Me Tender
National Theatre Live: Antigone| Love Me Tender | National Theatre Live: Antigone | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.7/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2012 |
| Length | 2h 14m | 1h 32m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Anna Cazenave Cambet | Polly Findlay |
| Main cast | Julien de Saint Jean, Féodor Atkine, Vicky Krieps, Anna Sigalevitch, Aurélia Petit | Annabel Scholey, Christopher Eccleston, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Alfred Enoch, Jodie Whittaker |
Synopsis
Love Me Tender
At the end of summer, Clémence tells her ex-husband that she’s had relationships with women. Her life is turned upside down when he files to strip her of their son’s custody. Then begins a struggle of several years for Clémence to defend her right to be a mother and a woman – free to make her own choices.
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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