National Theatre Live: Antigone vs Reading Lolita in Tehran
National Theatre Live: Antigone has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.3/10 for Reading Lolita in Tehran). National Theatre Live: Antigone is the shorter watch at 1h 32m compared with 1h 48m. National Theatre Live: Antigone is the older of the two (2012 against 2024). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
National Theatre Live: Antigone
Reading Lolita in Tehran| National Theatre Live: Antigone | Reading Lolita in Tehran | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 7.3/10 |
| Year | 2012 | 2024 |
| Length | 1h 32m | 1h 48m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | United Kingdom | – |
| Director | Polly Findlay | Eran Riklis |
| Main cast | Annabel Scholey, Christopher Eccleston, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Alfred Enoch, Jodie Whittaker | Lara Wolf, Rita Yahan-Farouz, Raha Rahbari, Golshifteh Farahani, Reza Diako |
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…
Reading Lolita in Tehran
As Islamic morality squads stage arbitrary raids in Tehran and as fundamentalists seize hold of the universities, Azar Nafisi, an inspired teacher, secretly gathers six of her most committed female students to read forbidden western classics. Unaccustomed to being asked to speak their minds, they soon removed their veils, their stories intertwining with the novels they read: just like the heroines of Nabokov, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James or…
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