National Theatre Live: Antigone vs Secret Things

National Theatre Live: Antigone has the higher audience score (10/10 against 5.7/10 for Secret Things). National Theatre Live: Antigone is the shorter watch at 1h 32m compared with 1h 55m. Secret Things is the older of the two (2002 against 2012). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

National Theatre Live: Antigone posterNational Theatre Live: Antigone2012 VS Secret Things posterSecret Things2002
National Theatre Live: AntigoneSecret Things
Audience score★ 10.0/10★ 5.7/10
Year20122002
Length1h 32m1h 55m
GenresDramaDrama
Country––
DirectorPolly FindlayJean-Claude Brisseau
Main castAnnabel Scholey, Christopher Eccleston, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Alfred Enoch, Jodie WhittakerFabrice Deville, Coralie Revel, Sabrina Seyvecou, Roger Miremont, Blandine Bury

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…

Secret Things

Two young women find themselves struggling to survive in Paris, street-wise Nathalie, a stripper, and naïve Sandrine, a barmaid. Together, they discover that sex can be used to their advantage, and pleasure.

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