National Theatre Live: Antigone vs The Family Friend
National Theatre Live: Antigone has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.2/10 for The Family Friend). National Theatre Live: Antigone is the shorter watch at 1h 32m compared with 1h 42m. The Family Friend is the older of the two (2006 against 2012). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
National Theatre Live: Antigone
The Family Friend| National Theatre Live: Antigone | The Family Friend | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 7.2/10 |
| Year | 2012 | 2006 |
| Length | 1h 32m | 1h 42m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Polly Findlay | Paolo Sorrentino |
| Main cast | Annabel Scholey, Christopher Eccleston, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Alfred Enoch, Jodie Whittaker | Giorgio Colangeli, Marco Giallini, Barbara Scoppa, Gigi Angelillo, Luisa De Santis |
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…
The Family Friend
Geremia, an aging tailor/money lender, is a repulsive, mean, stingy man who lives alone in his shabby house with his scornful, bedridden mother. He has a morbid, obsessive relationship with money and he uses it to insinuate himself into other people's affairs, pretending to be the "family friend". One day he is asked by a man to lend him money for the wedding of Rosalba, his daughter. Geremia falls in love at first sight with the bewitching…
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