Dir. Steven Soderbergh
2025 | 100 mins | US, UK | English
Ian McKellen, Michaela Coel, Jessica Gunning, James Corden

Showing Times

• Fri 22 May: 2.30pm + 5.30pm
• Sat 23 May: 3pm + 5.30pm
• Tue 26 May: 2pm + 7pm
• Wed 27 May: 2pm + 7pm
• Thu 28 May: 1pm + 8.15pm
• Fri 29 May: 5pm
• Sat 30 May: 7pm
• Mon 01 Jun: 2pm
• Tue 02 Jun: 2pm
• Wed 03 Jun: 11am Δ + 2pm
• Thu 04 Jun: 5.15pm

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Ian McKellen and I May Destroy You‘s Michaela Coel spar in Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh’s (Out of Sight, Traffic, Magic Mike, Black Bag) incisive chamber comedy of art and avarice, supported by Baby Reindeer‘s Jessica Gunning and James Corden.

Lori (Coel) divides her time between freelance art restoration and work in a food truck. Her lacklustre fortunes change when she’s approached by the estranged heirs (Gunning, Corden) of brilliant painter Julian Sklar (McKellen) with an exciting proposition: Lori will steal a series of long-abandoned paintings (‘The Christophers’) from Sklar’s London home, complete them and reap a third of the profits once the paintings are sold after Sklar’s imminent death. What could possibly go wrong?

Brilliantly scripted by Ed Solomon, blisteringly performed by an acerbic McKellen and a cagey Coel, The Christophers is a witty, exhilarating and complex new offering from Soderbergh that serves up thorny truths about youth and old age, artistic integrity and legacy.

BBFC Rating
Rated 15 – very strong language

Venue: Studio 74, Exeter Phoenix

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