Reel Lives: The Christophers
Foyle Film Festival presents a Reel Lives screening of The Christophers (2025).
What is the value of art? Does it reside in personal expression? Cultural longevity? Financial worth?
These questions fuel Steven Soderbergh’s gloriously entertaining comedy, The Christophers. A mainstay of the London art scene since his starry breakout in the creative explosion of the 1960’s, Julian Sklar (Ian McKellen) has drifted into a cluttered, self- imposed seclusion.
His two estranged children (James Corden, Jessica Gunning) enlist Lori (Michaela Coel), a young painter and sometime-forger, to pose as a prospective assistant and gain access to a fabled series of unfinished canvases Julian has buried deep in his home studio, in a deceptive bid to secure an inheritance for themselves. A sharp and remarkable tale of creativity, legacy, and avarice.
Steven Soderbergh | United Kingdom, United States | 2025 | 100 mins | 15
