About the Event
The British Film Festival presents an advance preview from acclaimed director Steven Soderbergh, The Christophers is a sharp, darkly comic exploration of art, legacy and deception, led by Golden Globe winner Ian McKellen and Emmy winner Michaela Coel.
"In a six-decade career spanning Shakespeare, Stephen King, Marvel, and Gandalf, this may be the best work of McKellen’s career." - Boston Globe
"Much like a pivotal painting of Lori’s, the more time you squint at the existential musings tucked into The Christophers, the more there is to see." - Chicago Reader
"The Christophers finds director Steven Soderbergh continuing his insatiable journey of cinematic exploration, and seemingly having the time of his life." - Globe and Mail
The children of a once famous artist (Ian McKellen) hire a forger (Michaela Coel) to complete some unfinished, long ago abandoned canvases so they’ll have an inheritance when he dies.