National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies vs The Diary of a Chambermaid
The Diary of a Chambermaid is the shorter watch at 1h 34m compared with 2h 15m. National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies is the older of the two (2023 against 2026). Both are comedy, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies
The Diary of a Chambermaid| National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies | The Diary of a Chambermaid | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 9.0/10 | ★ 0.0/10 |
| Year | 2023 | 2026 |
| Length | 2h 15m | 1h 34m |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama, History | Comedy, Drama |
| Country | United Kingdom | – |
| Director | Jeremy Herrin | Radu Jude |
| Main cast | Sam Otto, David Harewood, Zachary Quinto, Clare Foster, Syrus Lowe | Vincent Macaigne, Ilinca Manolache, Marie Rivière, Mélanie Thierry, Ana Dumitrașcu |
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 Diary of a Chambermaid
Gianina, a young Romanian, works as a housekeeper for a bourgeois family in Bordeaux. In the evenings, she rehearses the role of a maid with an amateur theater troupe in an adaptation of The Diary of a Chambermaid by Octave Mirbeau. She takes care of Louen, her employers’ son, while her own daughter is growing up far from her, in Romania. The maternal absence deepens into a wound but, as Christmas approaches, the promise of a reunion begins to…
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