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Antigone

1974

A stark, talky stage adaptation that feels like a tense moral debate, rewarding close attention with heavy emotional payoff.

Directed by
Stellio Lorenzi
Genres
Drama, Tv movie
Starring
Jean Topart, Alain Cuny, Marie-Hélène Breillat
Overview
With fierce originality, this powerful adaptation of the Sophocles tragedy presents a world of honor, treachery and fateful consequences. Acclaimed actress Genevieve Bujold skillfully combines elements of zealotry and idealism in her affecting portrait of Antigone. Jean Anouilh's retelling of "Antigone" stages the inescapably wrenching central confrontation between Antigone and Creon by presenting Bujold and Fritz Weaver seated at a long, executive-suite table--a hallmark of Anouilh's play.

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Directed by
Stellio Lorenzi
Genres
Drama, Tv movie
Starring
Jean Topart, Alain Cuny, Marie-Hélène Breillat
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Tone
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 3 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • morality
  • power
  • fate
  • rebellion
  • death
Places
None
Era
timeless
Audience
adult
Form
  • single location
  • true story
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror1
Humour1
Realism6
Romance1
Tension6
Darkness7
Complexity7
Emotional weight8

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Genres
drama, tv movie
Directed by
Stellio Lorenzi
Starring
Jean Topart, Alain Cuny, Marie-Hélène Breillat, Robert Darmel, Sacha Pitoëff, Claude Leblond, Régine Teyssot, Bernard Malaterre
Country
France
Languages
French

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