Machuca vs National Theatre Live: Antigone
National Theatre Live: Antigone has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.8/10 for Machuca). National Theatre Live: Antigone is the shorter watch at 1h 32m compared with 1h 56m. Machuca is the older of the two (2004 against 2012). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Machuca
National Theatre Live: Antigone| Machuca | National Theatre Live: Antigone | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.8/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2004 | 2012 |
| Length | 1h 56m | 1h 32m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Andrés Wood | Polly Findlay |
| Main cast | Tiago Correa, Federico Luppi, Matías Quer, Ariel Mateluna, Aline Küppenheim | Annabel Scholey, Christopher Eccleston, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Alfred Enoch, Jodie Whittaker |
Synopsis
Machuca
Santiago, capital of Chile during the Marxist government of elected, highly controversial president Salvador Allende. Father McEnroe supports his leftist views by introducing a program at the prestigious "collegio" (Catholic prep school) St. Patrick to allow free admission of some proletarian kids. One of them is Pedro Machuca, slum-raised son of the cleaning lady in Gonzalo Infante's liberal-bourgeois home. Yet the new classmates become…
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…
Where to watch
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