Irish Film Institute -THE CHRISTOPHERS

THE CHRISTOPHERS

Director: STEVEN SODERBERGH

100 mins, UK-USA, 2025, Digital

OPENS MAY 15th

Gifted art restorer Lori (Michaela Coel) has been engaged by the estranged children of Julian Sklar (Ian McKellen), a once infamous, now reclusive, London artist, to help them in a scheme to secure their inheritance. Posing as Sklar’s new assistant, Lori is to complete the titular series of unfinished portraits so that they can be posthumously ‘discovered’ and sold. Needless to say, all does not go to plan in Steven Soderbergh’s delightfully acerbic, beautifully performed two-hander.

Notes by David O’Mahony

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