National Theatre Live: Antigone vs Not What You Think
National Theatre Live: Antigone has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6/10 for Not What You Think). National Theatre Live: Antigone is the shorter watch at 1h 32m compared with 1h 45m. 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
Not What You Think| National Theatre Live: Antigone | Not What You Think | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 6.0/10 |
| Year | 2012 | 2025 |
| Length | 1h 32m | 1h 45m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Polly Findlay | Vuslat Saraçoğlu |
| Main cast | Annabel Scholey, Christopher Eccleston, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Alfred Enoch, Jodie Whittaker | Alican Yücesoy, Serdar Orçin, Hazal Türesan, Ozan Çelik, Ünal Yeter |
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…
Not What You Think
Three very different siblings reunite in their hometown Tokat after their father's mysterious death, where shifting alliances, buried memories, and tangled bonds reveal that nothing about their past is as they believed.
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