Hepworth FILM NIGHT

COMING SOON…

Sept 11 – The Christophers

An irascible old English painter called Julian Sklar, wonderfully played by Ian McKellen, is a once dominant but now outmoded artist, living solo in a chaotic London townhouse. Opposite McKellen, Michaela Coel, is at the top of her game as Lori Butler, a charismatic former art student fallen on hard times. She is hired as Julian’s assistant by his grasping adult children Barnaby (James Corden) and Sallie (Jessica Gunning). Lori is under instructions from the children to find a series of much talked-about paintings that Julian began showing in the 1990s while he was still a big name but then withdrew from sight and hid somewhere in the house; these are passionate studies of his then beautiful lover, Christopher, called “The Christophers”. Barnaby and Sallie figure that The Christophers are the only things worth the big money for them; Lori’s job is to find them and, if they are destroyed or unfinished, to forge similar works using her remarkable skills so they can pass them off as real once he’s dead. Directed by Oscar winning director, Steven Soderbergh.
(Rating 15 – running time 1hr 40 mins )