The Christophers is a Steven Soderbergh C-side. 

His new movie is less recognizably Him than almost any other entry in his oeuvre, allowing an application of auteur theory that can provoke consideration of its place in relation to his more unified body of work, adding extra-textual layers to The Christophers through this prism of contextual understanding.

It almost feels like Soderbergh’s A Good Year, in the sense that they’re experiments in more minimalist approaches? Sody and Ridley Scott tamped down their directorial styles in favor of a softer-spoken touch. Why does this path befit The Christophers’ character-based, slice-of-life, darkly crowd-pleasing nature?

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Is Sody a nicher Ridley? More consistent aesthetics and thematic preoccupations…but a similarly-diverse range of projects for bonafide auteurs?