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Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (2006)
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Reviews Counted:117
Fresh:106
Rotten:11
Average Rating:7.5/10
Consensus: Though Laurence Sterne's novel was considered more or less impossible to successfully adapt to film, director Michael Winterbottom has done it in Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story, by making movie about the making of the movie. Stars Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon add madcap, knowing performances to the mix, and the result is a fun, postmodern romp, before there was any modern romp to post.
Theatrical Release:Jan 27, 2006 Limited
Box Office: $1,110,155
Synopsis: Barely stopping to breathe between productions, outrageously prolific director Michael Winterbottom follows his graphically intimate 9 SONGS with the raucously entertaining TRISTRAM SHANDY: A COCK... [More]
Starring: Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Keeley Hawes, Shirley Henderson
Director: Michael Winterbottom
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Reviews for Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
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Coogan and Brydon make a beautiful squabbling couple Full Review |
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7/10 |
Equal parts literature and lunacy. Full Review |
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For those who can appreciate the movie's ironic, self-referential nature, this is a thoroughly engaging, near-brilliant comedy. Full Review |
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If you go into this movie expecting a traditional narrative tale, you may get discouraged. You have to throw away your expectations and sit back and wait to see what happens ... if anything. Full Review |
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4/5 |
A successful mix of literary adaptation, meta-fictional discourse and inside-showbiz comedy. Both funny and clever. Full Review |
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[O]ne of the cleverest deconstructions and modernizations of a work of classic literature cinema has ever achieved... Full Review |
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...Preposterously funny, perpetually inventive, implausibly successful... Full Review |
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Adventurous, ambitious and downright quirky, this will appeal to those who revel in more than a little bite in their humour. Full Review |
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9/10 |
un film dont on se délecte autant pour la redoutable intelligence de son récit et le côté fêlé de sa structure narrative que pour son humour aussi mordant que désopilant Full Review |
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Tristram Shandy: A Cock & Bull Story is a hall of mirrors that doesn’t tease the brain (it’s easier to watch than to read about) so much as goose it into submission. Full Review |
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4/5 |
The film is complex and droll--always amusing and often hilarious. Full Review |
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...we see around and behind and underneath the stage, so to speak -- peering into the intertwined lives of the people who are caught up in the maelstrom of an untenable subject for film adaptation. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
A film about a film based on a novel about writing a novel Full Review |
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What Winterbottom has done beautifully is distill Sterne's comic experimentation with the rules and shape of the written narrative and translate it into a lark on filmmaking form and technique. Full Review |
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By all accounts, Sterne’s novel is nutty and ribald and utterly defiant of conventional storytelling techniques … hence this adaptation’s wonderfully meta take. Full Review |
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3/4 |
Solidifies what Project Greenlight taught us; the process that goes into making a movie often ends up being far more entertaining than the finished project. Full Review |
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