Melissa P. vs National Theatre Live: Antigone

National Theatre Live: Antigone has the higher audience score (10/10 against 4.6/10 for Melissa P.). National Theatre Live: Antigone is the shorter watch at 1h 32m compared with 1h 40m. Melissa P. is the older of the two (2005 against 2012). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Melissa P. posterMelissa P.2005 VS National Theatre Live: Antigone posterNational Theatre Live: Antigone2012
Melissa P.National Theatre Live: Antigone
Audience score★ 4.6/10★ 10.0/10
Year20052012
Length1h 40m1h 32m
GenresDramaDrama
Country––
DirectorLuca GuadagninoPolly Findlay
Main castAlba Rohrwacher, Pier Giorgio Bellocchio, María Valverde, Geraldine Chaplin, Marcello MazzarellaAnnabel Scholey, Christopher Eccleston, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Alfred Enoch, Jodie Whittaker

Synopsis

Melissa P.

An adolescent girl, living with her mother and her grandmother, will have her first sexual experiences in a heavy and excessive way.

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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