Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
Two actors, as their make up is applied, talk about the size of their parts. Then into the film: Laurence Sterne's unfilmable novel, Tristram Shandy, a fictive autobiography wherein the narrator, interrupted constantly, takes the entire story to be born. The film tracks between "Shandy" and behind the scenes. Size matters: parts, egos, shoes, noses. The lead's girlfriend, with their infant son, is up from London for the night, wanting sex; interruptions are constant. Scenes are shot, re-shot, and discarded. The purpose of the project is elusive. Fathers and sons; men and women; cocks and bulls. Life is amorphous, too full and too rich to be captured in one narrative.
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Comedy, Drama
2005
94 min
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Movie Info:
- Full Name : Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
- Duration : 94 min
- Languages : English
- Writers : Laurence Sterne (novel), Frank Cottrell Boyce (screenplay)
- Directors : Michael Winterbottom min
- Imdb : 6.8 (10931 votes)
- Tomatoes : 3.3 (22656 votes)
- Actors : Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Keeley Hawes, Shirley Henderson
Movie Storyline
Two actors, as their make up is applied, talk about the size of their parts. Then into the film: Laurence Sterne's unfilmable novel, Tristram Shandy, a fictive autobiography wherein the narrator, interrupted constantly, takes the entire story to be born. The film tracks between "Shandy" and behind the scenes. Size matters: parts, egos, shoes, noses. The lead's girlfriend, with their infant son, is up from London for the night, wanting sex; interruptions are constant. Scenes are shot, re-shot, and discarded. The purpose of the project is elusive. Fathers and sons; men and women; cocks and bulls. Life is amorphous, too full and too rich to be captured in one narrative.