The Christophers

A struggling artist infiltrates a painter’s household in this audacious chamber piece from Steven Soderbergh, starring Michaela Coel and Ian McKellen.

Once celebrated as a giant of Britain's art scene, Julian Sklar now lives in creative paralysis, surrounded by unfinished canvases and decades of bitterness. Convinced there is still money to be made from his abandoned work, his estranged children (James Corden and Jessica Gunning) recruit Lori, a gifted artist with a shadowy history, to assist.

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. A sharply observed satire about the price of art and legacy.