National Theatre Live: Antigone vs Sound of Falling
National Theatre Live: Antigone has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.8/10 for Sound of Falling). National Theatre Live: Antigone is the shorter watch at 1h 32m compared with 2h 28m. 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
Sound of Falling| National Theatre Live: Antigone | Sound of Falling | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 6.8/10 |
| Year | 2012 | 2025 |
| Length | 1h 32m | 2h 28m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Polly Findlay | Mascha Schilinski |
| Main cast | Annabel Scholey, Christopher Eccleston, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Alfred Enoch, Jodie Whittaker | Lucas Prisor, Susanne Wuest, Claudia Geisler-Bading, Luise Heyer, Andreas Anke |
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…
Sound of Falling
Four adolescent girls each spend their youth in the same farmhouse over the last century. Though separated by decades, resonances between their lives emerge: their desires and distress, secrets and truths, encounters with another’s gaze and defiant gaze in return.
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