Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story

2006 • 90 minutes

About this movie

Michael Winterbottom teams up with Steve Coogan again (24 Hour Party People) in this rollicking, inventive adaptation of the classic 18th Century comic novel, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne. The film multiplies Sterne's conceit to tell two stories: one of an 18th Century Englishman, Tristram Shandy (Steve Coogan); and that of the hapless 21st Century filmmakers who are adapting the notoriously unfilmable work. With Tristram Shandy, Winterbottom again affirms his protean talent as he delivers a zesty celebration of storytelling and the life that spills out of it. 2005, Scion Films (Tristram) Production Partnership, All rights Reserved

Ratings and reviews

An absolute work of art. You've never on sure footing and the humour is martini-dry.