Mudbound vs National Theatre Live: Antigone
National Theatre Live: Antigone has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.4/10 for Mudbound). National Theatre Live: Antigone is the shorter watch at 1h 32m compared with 2h 15m. National Theatre Live: Antigone is the older of the two (2012 against 2017). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Mudbound
National Theatre Live: Antigone| Mudbound | National Theatre Live: Antigone | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.4/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2017 | 2012 |
| Length | 2h 15m | 1h 32m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | United States of America | – |
| Director | Dee Rees | Polly Findlay |
| Main cast | Jonathan Banks, Mary J. Blige, Garrett Hedlund, Jason Clarke, Carey Mulligan | Annabel Scholey, Christopher Eccleston, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Alfred Enoch, Jodie Whittaker |
Synopsis
Mudbound
In the post–World War II South, two families are pitted against a barbaric social hierarchy and an unrelenting landscape as they simultaneously fight the battle at home and the battle abroad.
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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