{"id":2005494,"date":"2025-09-08T05:08:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T05:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2005494"},"modified":"2025-09-08T05:08:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T05:08:10","slug":"the-christophers-review-steven-soderberghs-chamber-drama-is-a-riveting-meditation-on-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-christophers-review-steven-soderberghs-chamber-drama-is-a-riveting-meditation-on-art\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Christophers\u2019 Review: Steven Soderbergh\u2019s Chamber Drama Is a Riveting Meditation on Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">About midway through \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt34966562\/\">The Christophers<\/a>,\u201d director <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001752\/\">Steven Soderbergh<\/a>\u2019s latest film from a script by his frequent collaborator <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0004412\/\">Ed Solomon<\/a>, there is a scene where an artist is driven not to create something beautiful, but to destroy it in favor of something ugly.<\/p>\n<p>The artist in question is the aged painter Julian Sklar, played by a witheringly good <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0005212\/\">Ian McKellen<\/a>, and watching on is his faux assistant Lori, played by the always magnificent <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm3948190\/\">Michaela Coel<\/a>, who comes into his orbit when hired to steal then finish via forgery some of his most iconic yet incomplete works. However, as should be known with any recent Soderbergh film, the initial premise of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About midway through \u201cThe Christophers,\u201d director Steven Soderbergh\u2019s latest film from a script by his frequent collaborator Ed Solomon, there is a scene where an artist is driven not to create something beautiful, but to destroy it in favor of something ugly. The artist in question is the aged painter Julian Sklar, played by a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2005495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2005494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/\u2018The-Christophers-Review-Steven-Soderberghs-Chamber-Drama-Is-a-Riveting.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2005494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2005495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2005494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2005494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2005494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}