"A Cock and Bull Story is an undeniably rare film. Adapted from the classic novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Stern, one which was considered to be pretty much unfilmable, director Michael Winterbottom has successfully adapted it by making t...( read more)
Jeremy Northam, Keeley Hawes, Rob Brydon
Director Michael Winterbottom (Northam) attempts to shoot the adaptation of Laurence Sterne's essentially unfilmable novel, "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman."
DVD Release Date: July 11, 2006
Stats: 1,142 reviews
Flixster Reviews (1,142)
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September 3, 2008
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March 31, 2008
Tony Wilson: "Why "Tristram Shandy"? This is the book that many people said is unfilmable.
Steve Coogan: I think that's the attraction. "Tristram Shandy" was a post-modern classic written before there was any modernism to be post about. So it was way ahead of its time a...( read more) -
January 17, 2008
Tony Wilson: Why "Tristram Shandy"? This is the book that many people said is unfilmable.
Steve Coogan: I think that's the attraction. "Tristram Shandy" was a post-modern classic written before there was any modernism to be post about. So it was way ahead of its time and, in fact...( read more) -
August 2, 2007
A brilliant idea with a great effort at staying true to Sterne. I love that they figured out a way to fit in the black page. You know, they talk about it being a book that can't be filmed, and to a certain extent this proves a self-fulfilling prophesy. Still, there's enough th...( read more)
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October 28, 2009
I love Steve Coogan and Stephen Fry and Jeremy Northam is delicious. However, the movie is peculiar to say the least.
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August 6, 2009
A smart film filmed as a making of documentary about a film of a book. It's brilliantly done with a "Best Of British" cast - Brydon is a standout, but sadly it falls down on tone: it's not that funny, nor is it all that clever. Worth seeing for fans of British comedy, but it's no...( read more)
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June 8, 2009
Very quirky and quite humorous, though the second half of the film is rather plodding.
Critic Reviews
This material is the most remote from the letter of Sterne's novel, but in its spirit of verbal play, digression and free-wheeling wit, it pays affectionate tribute to his bawdy jokester spirit. full review
Sometimes it's the most unfilmable novels that make the best movies. full review
It wonderfully evokes the life on a movie set, which for a few weeks or months creates its own closed society. full review
You would think [the] book would be unfilmable, and you'd be right. But that didn't stop [director] Michael Winterbottom from taking it on. full review
The movie's delights unfold like an intricate, exotic puzzle: Winterbottom has built a detailed, miniature universe inside a sugar egg. full review
Not a movie version of the book but rather a movie about a movie about the book.
It sounds confusing, but it's really inventive and bizarre and marvelously entertaining. full review
A delirious orgy of self-reflexive ridiculousness. full review
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