National Theatre Live: Antigone vs Pain and Glory
National Theatre Live: Antigone has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.4/10 for Pain and Glory). National Theatre Live: Antigone is the shorter watch at 1h 32m compared with 1h 54m. National Theatre Live: Antigone is the older of the two (2012 against 2019). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
National Theatre Live: Antigone
Pain and Glory| National Theatre Live: Antigone | Pain and Glory | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 7.4/10 |
| Year | 2012 | 2019 |
| Length | 1h 32m | 1h 54m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | – | Spain |
| Director | Polly Findlay | Pedro Almodóvar |
| Main cast | Annabel Scholey, Christopher Eccleston, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Alfred Enoch, Jodie Whittaker | Penélope Cruz, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Antonio Banderas, Pedro Casablanc, Nora Navas |
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…
Pain and Glory
Salvador Mallo, a filmmaker in the twilight of his career, remembers his life: his mother, his lovers, the actors he worked with. The sixties in a small village in Valencia, the eighties in Madrid, the present, when he feels an immeasurable emptiness, facing his mortality, the incapability of continuing filming, the impossibility of separating creation from his own life. The need of narrating his past can be his salvation.
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