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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
Michael Winterbottom may just be one of the greatest directors working today and, to boot, he's one of the few pure talents that remain unsullied by external pressures.
01/22/06
Cheeky and flippant.
01/21/06
Give this anarchic British comedy a shot and you'll be laughing from start to finish.
01/20/06
Instead of hoping to fool us that we’re watching life itself, they constantly remind us that telling a story is a fragile, silly, impossible process, and an essential delight.
01/19/06
A thin slice of a not-very-interesting nothing... The book they said was unfilmable turns out to be a film that is unwatchable.
01/17/06
Michael Winterbottom's prankish literary adaptation Tristram Shandy: A **** And Bull Story has about a dozen layers of in-joke, and up to the eighth or ninth layer, they mostly work.
12/06/05
A sharp, playful feature.
11/11/05
Not so much a mindf*** as a mindlovemaking.
11/10/05
A vehicle that somehow manages to provide period and modern amusement with some wit and tribulation. But it also looks like a make-work project for available British thesps.
11/09/05
The cast (composed almost entirely of familiar TV faces) are simply terrific and are clearly having a huge amount of fun, although Coogan deserves special praise for sending up his own image so fearlessly.
11/03/05
Tristram Shandy is that best of all worlds: a continual surprise from one scene to the next.
10/22/05
Winterbottom's conceit may not quite pay off but his risk-taking is exhilarating.
10/20/05
A delirious orgy of self-reflexive ridiculousness.
10/14/05
Diabolically clever and nothing short of hilarious... Think Being John Malkovich meets Adaptation as a period piece, and you're nearly there.
10/12/05
It's a wonderful extension of Sterne's spirited, frolicsome technique.
10/07/05
The conceit of this Tristram Shandy is that it knows it's a movie, much as Sterne's book knew it was a novel.
10/06/05
A rollicking comedy about a famous novel, movie-making, and the wild chaos of life that frustrates the sober-minded while generating gales of laughter in playful individuals
10/06/05
layered absurdist humor abounds within its wonderfully loose format
10/03/05
A completely mad film within a film, setting narrative aside for a free-wheeling examination of identity
09/30/05
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