Time for an advanced preview. Its been a little while since we did one of these. Its also a film ive not seen a trailer for & literally have only read synopsis about, which is actually quiet refreshing. Also Who doesnt love a McKellen. So lets see what The Christophers is all about.

For an advanced preview on a tuesday night, im a little bit disappointed with the turn out. Were in screen 6 & theres about 40 people here. I was expecting it to be nearly sold out. Also millennials is the youngest age group, but its mainly full of people in their 50s & 60s.

Trailers, the devil wears prada, tuner, obsession (looks odd but im in) & the sheep detectives. Thank you cineworld for heading back to less adverts for the advanced previews, its appreciated.

& then the film started… & it was well a work of art.

Who doesnt love Sir Ian doing a monologue? Be honest. Especially when hes talking his love for any sort of art all his rights or well anything. So to hear lots of these in this film is rather amazing. & then to see the opposite of him doing his cameo videos to ear a little extra cash on the side, brilliant. Shows how far weve come for the worse at points, but how change does sometimes need to be embraced.

Also whenever he & Michaela had a scene together it just worked & felt organic & you felt their trust in each other bloom & grow & felt them become more confident in each others presence. I mean from going from not even doing pronouns to how they finally saw each other really showed how they embraced each other & learnt the mutual respect. A sweet but vulnerable chemistry. Well done casting for matching these too together.

It could have actually been done as a two hander, i mean i do understand why it wasnt, but it is best with those two on the screen. Maybe it would work better as a play than a film. It also doesnt simplify things for the watcher, its clever & its built in layers much like the paintings.

I was not expecting James Corden to turn up as his son. I mean i know hes an actor but still. Seeing someone as obvious like that being his son was a bit odd & took me out of it.

The actual art aspect of it & how people view it & how people view the world & opinions on things was really important as well. It had to show great depth being serious & funny. It really was like looking at a painting for most of it. There was one very un serious moment that happened which then later on meant to much more for the ending which was very bitter sweet but was the exact ending it needed to be. It had to end that way & it made sense. It proved he didnt care anymore but deep down he still secretly did & wanted it to be fitting.

I laughed a couple of times, the constant wrong door buzzer, the house that never ended, calling someones art shit… it had its moments to make it more human.

I know a lot of you wont watch this, but you will find a calm & peace watching this. Its love of another type of art & flows wonderfully. If you can search this out when its released its well worth it. Its a beautiful watch.