National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies vs The Concert

National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies has the higher audience score (9/10 against 7.2/10 for The Concert). The Concert is the shorter watch at 1h 59m compared with 2h 15m. The Concert is the older of the two (2009 against 2023). Both are comedy, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies posterNational Theatre Live: Best of Enemies2023 VS The Concert posterThe Concert2009
National Theatre Live: Best of EnemiesThe Concert
Audience score★ 9.0/10★ 7.2/10
Year20232009
Length2h 15m1h 59m
GenresComedy, Drama, HistoryComedy, Drama
CountryUnited KingdomFrance
DirectorJeremy HerrinRadu Mihăileanu
Main castSam Otto, David Harewood, Zachary Quinto, Clare Foster, Syrus LoweSara Martins, François Berléand, Mélanie Laurent, Aleksey Guskov, Dmitri Nazarov

Synopsis

National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies

In 1968 America, as two men fight to become the next president, all eyes are on the battle between two others: the cunningly conservative William F. Buckley Jr., and the unruly liberal Gore Vidal. During a new nightly television format, they debate the moral landscape of a shattered nation.

The Concert

A former world-famous conductor of the Bolshoï orchestra, known as "The Maëstro", Andreï Filipov had seen his career publicly broken by Leonid Brezhnev for hiring Jewish musicians and now works cleaning the concert hall where he once directed. One day, he intercepts an official invitation from the prestigious Théâtre du Châtelet. Through a series of mad antics, he reunites his old orchestra, now composed of old alcoholic musicians, and flies to…

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