More Than Yesterday vs National Theatre Live: Antigone

National Theatre Live: Antigone has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6/10 for More Than Yesterday). More Than Yesterday is the shorter watch at 1h 26m compared with 1h 32m. More Than Yesterday is the older of the two (1999 against 2012). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

More Than Yesterday posterMore Than Yesterday1999 VS National Theatre Live: Antigone posterNational Theatre Live: Antigone2012
More Than YesterdayNational Theatre Live: Antigone
Audience score★ 6.0/10★ 10.0/10
Year19992012
Length1h 26m1h 32m
GenresDramaDrama
Country––
DirectorLaurent AchardPolly Findlay
Main castNathalie Besançon, Pascal Cervo, Mireille Roussel, Alexis PerretAnnabel Scholey, Christopher Eccleston, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Alfred Enoch, Jodie Whittaker

Synopsis

More Than Yesterday

The last weekend of summer. Mother is preparing the jars for winter pickling, love-struck Françoise is practising karaoke in front of her little brother Julien. In the shed behind the house, Karim is doing some "undeclared" work, having given up on his acting dreams. In a few hours, the new canning factory, where Father works, will be inaugurated. No one is expecting Sonia, who decides to turn up that very morning.

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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