When asked by previous collaborator Ed Solomon (No Sudden Move) what he was working on next, Steven Soderbergh responded 'I want to do a movie about an older artist and a younger artist who comes into his life in a kind of fraudulent way, and – maybe his kids are involved? I don't know.’ Solomon ran with the idea and the result is a dark comedy with plot twists and turns to keep the audience guessing.
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.
Reviews
"Arty, accessible, profound, and profane, The Christophers reminds audiences of what a gifted storyteller Soderbergh can be, and how his threats to quit are to be dismissed as nothing more than the passing tempers of an artist looking for a bit of attention." – AV Club
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