National Theatre Live: The Audience vs The Cool Lakes of Death

National Theatre Live: The Audience has the higher audience score (8.3/10 against 5.9/10 for The Cool Lakes of Death). The Cool Lakes of Death is the shorter watch at 2h 4m compared with 2h 22m. The Cool Lakes of Death is the older of the two (1982 against 2013). Both are drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.

National Theatre Live: The Audience posterNational Theatre Live: The Audience2013 VS The Cool Lakes of Death posterThe Cool Lakes of Death1982
National Theatre Live: The AudienceThe Cool Lakes of Death
Audience score★ 8.3/10★ 5.9/10
Year20131982
Length2h 22m2h 4m
GenresDrama, HistoryDrama, History
CountryUnited KingdomNetherlands
DirectorRobin LoughNouchka van Brakel
Main castPaul Ritter, Helen Mirren, Geoffrey Beevers, Edward Fox, Nell WilliamsDerek de Lint, Renée Soutendijk, Huub Stapel, Peter Faber, Erik van 't Wout

Synopsis

National Theatre Live: The Audience

For sixty years, Elizabeth II has met each of her twelve Prime Ministers in a weekly audience at Buckingham Palace, a meeting like no other in British public life, it is private.

The Cool Lakes of Death

Hedwig, a young wealthy woman growing up in the straight-jacket of bourgeois morality in the Victorian era, descends into madness after years of sexual repression and tragedy.

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