National Theatre Live: Antigone vs Night Flower
National Theatre Live: Antigone has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6/10 for Night Flower). National Theatre Live: Antigone is the older of the two (2012 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
National Theatre Live: Antigone
Night Flower| National Theatre Live: Antigone | Night Flower | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 6.0/10 |
| Year | 2012 | 2025 |
| Length | 1h 32m | – |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | – | Japan |
| Director | Polly Findlay | Eiji Uchida |
| Main cast | Annabel Scholey, Christopher Eccleston, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Alfred Enoch, Jodie Whittaker | Ken Mitsuishi, Kiyohiko Shibukawa, Keiko Kitagawa, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi, Misato Morita |
Synopsis
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…
Night Flower
Driven to the brink, Natsuki makes a desperate gamble: selling drugs to make her children's dreams come true. Living a double life—mother by day, dealer by dark—where will this dangerous path lead her—?
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