National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies vs The Libertine

National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies has the higher audience score (9/10 against 5.6/10 for The Libertine). The Libertine is the shorter watch at 1h 40m compared with 2h 15m. The Libertine is the older of the two (2000 against 2023). Both are comedy, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.

National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies posterNational Theatre Live: Best of Enemies2023 VS The Libertine posterThe Libertine2000
National Theatre Live: Best of EnemiesThe Libertine
Audience score★ 9.0/10★ 5.6/10
Year20232000
Length2h 15m1h 40m
GenresComedy, Drama, HistoryComedy, History
CountryUnited Kingdom–
DirectorJeremy HerrinGabriel Aghion
Main castSam Otto, David Harewood, Zachary Quinto, Clare Foster, Syrus LoweVincent Perez, Fanny Ardant, Josiane Balasko, Michel Serrault, Arielle Dombasle

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 Libertine

French philosopher Denis Diderot produces the first encyclopedia while indulging in 18th-century decadence.

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