Monsieur Batignole vs National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies
National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies has the higher audience score (9/10 against 7/10 for Monsieur Batignole). Monsieur Batignole is the shorter watch at 1h 40m compared with 2h 15m. Monsieur Batignole is the older of the two (2002 against 2023). Both are comedy, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Monsieur Batignole
National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies| Monsieur Batignole | National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.0/10 | ★ 9.0/10 |
| Year | 2002 | 2023 |
| Length | 1h 40m | 2h 15m |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama | Comedy, Drama, History |
| Country | – | United Kingdom |
| Director | Gérard Jugnot | Jeremy Herrin |
| Main cast | Gérard Jugnot, Daniel Martin, Philippe du Janerand, Alexia Portal, Jean-Paul Rouve | Sam Otto, David Harewood, Zachary Quinto, Clare Foster, Syrus Lowe |
Synopsis
Monsieur Batignole
In 1942, in an occupied Paris, the apolitical grocer Edmond Batignole lives with his wife and daughter in a small apartment in the building of his grocery. When his future son-in-law and collaborator of the German Pierre-Jean Lamour calls the Nazis to arrest the Jewish Bernstein family, they move to the confiscated apartment. Some days later, the young Simon Bernstein escapes from the Germans and comes to his former home. When Batignole finds…
National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies
In 1968 America, as two men fight to become the next president, all eyes are on the battle between two others: the cunningly conservative William F. Buckley Jr., and the unruly liberal Gore Vidal. During a new nightly television format, they debate the moral landscape of a shattered nation.
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