Mysterious Skin vs National Theatre Live: Antigone
National Theatre Live: Antigone has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.7/10 for Mysterious Skin). National Theatre Live: Antigone is the shorter watch at 1h 32m compared with 1h 45m. Mysterious Skin is the older of the two (2005 against 2012). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Mysterious Skin
National Theatre Live: Antigone| Mysterious Skin | National Theatre Live: Antigone | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.7/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2005 | 2012 |
| Length | 1h 45m | 1h 32m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | United States of America | – |
| Director | Gregg Araki | Polly Findlay |
| Main cast | Elisabeth Shue, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Bill Sage, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Chris Mulkey | Annabel Scholey, Christopher Eccleston, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Alfred Enoch, Jodie Whittaker |
Synopsis
Mysterious Skin
A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.
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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