Mommy, I'm Scared vs National Theatre Live: Antigone

National Theatre Live: Antigone has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.8/10 for Mommy, I'm Scared). National Theatre Live: Antigone is the shorter watch at 1h 32m compared with 2h 4m. Mommy, I'm Scared is the older of the two (2006 against 2012). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Mommy, I'm Scared posterMommy, I'm Scared2006 VS National Theatre Live: Antigone posterNational Theatre Live: Antigone2012
Mommy, I'm ScaredNational Theatre Live: Antigone
Audience score★ 6.8/10★ 10.0/10
Year20062012
Length2h 4m1h 32m
GenresDramaDrama
CountryTurkeyUnited Kingdom
DirectorReha ErdemPolly Findlay
Main castTaner Birsel, Serkan Keskin, Sencar Sağdıç, Bülent Emin Yarar, Sermiyan MidyatAnnabel Scholey, Christopher Eccleston, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Alfred Enoch, Jodie Whittaker

Synopsis

Mommy, I'm Scared

Reha Erdem’s innovative group portrait of the inhabitants of an apartment building in Istanbul serves as a comic exploration of what it means to be human. The drama revolves around hapless taxi driver Ali, who suffers from amnesia as a result of an accident the cause of which he does not remember. As he struggles to regain his memory, his neighbors—embodying a variety of physical, mental, and emotional states—wrestle with their own…

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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