Steven Soderbergh's Christophers: A Rogue Comedy About Fraud Turns Out to Be a Philosophical Conversation About Art. 87-Year-Old Sir Ian McKellen Set Himself the Main Role in This Film as a “Lifetime Monument”, Says Anton Dolin

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In early June, the film “Christopher” by British director Steven Soderbergh was released in Europe. Sir Ian McKellen, 87, played the main role of a brilliant artist who had long stopped writing. His assistant (also an artist), who is in collusion with the master's heirs, was played by Micayla Cole. The creators of the multi-layered fraud story finally raise questions about the nature of creativity. Film critic Anton Dolin explains what the colle…