Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
2005 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom
Laurence Sterne's unfilmable novel, "Tristram Shandy", a fictive autobiography wherein the narrator, interrupted constantly, takes the entire story to be born. Then into a group of actors and filmmakers set out to adapt it. Size matters: parts, egos, shoes, noses. The lead's girlfriend, with their infant son, is up from London for the night, wanting sex. Scenes are shot, re-shot, and discarded. The purpose of the project is elusive. Life is amorphous, too full and too rich to be captured in one narrative.
Direction Michael Winterbottom
Cast Steve Coogan · Rob Brydon · Naomie Harris · Kelly MacDonald · Shirley Henderson · Jeremy Northam · Gillian Anderson · Dylan Moran · Kieran O'Brien · Mark Williams · Tony Wilson · Keeley Hawes · James Fleet · Ian Hart · Roger Allam · Ashley Jensen · Stephen Fry · Elizabeth Berrington · David Walliams · Benedict Wong
Soundtrack Michael Nyman
Screenplay Frank Cottrell Boyce · Laurence Sterne
Cinematography Marcel Zyskind
Original title Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
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