The Christophers

A struggling art restorer enters a fading painter’s household in this audacious and charming chamber piece from Steven Soderbergh.

  • Director

    Steven Soderbergh

  • With

    Ian McKellen, Michaela Coel, Jessica Gunning, James Corden

  • UK-USA 2025. 100min

  • Digital

  • Certificate

    15

  • A Picturehouse Entertainment release

Once celebrated as a giant of Britain's art scene, Julian now lives in creative paralysis, surrounded by unfinished canvases and decades of bitterness. Convinced there is still fortune to be mined from his abandoned work, his estranged children recruit Lori, a gifted artist with a shadowy history, to infiltrate Sklar's household. With razor-sharp dialogue from screenwriter Ed Solomon and Steven Soderbergh's agile direction, The Christophers transforms questions of authenticity, legacy, and artistic ownership into a wickedly entertaining comedy. McKellen relishes every cutting remark as the impossible patriarch, while Coel delivers a magnetic performance balancing deadpan wit with moral ambiguity. Soderbergh's latest is a sharply observed satire about the price of art and legacy.

Rógan Graham, Film Programmer

Audio Description available at all screenings.

Descriptive subtitles will be presented at these screenings: Mon 1 Jun 18:20 NFT4; Thu 4 Jun 14:10 NFT4 

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