Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon’s BBC series is cobbled into a film for US audiences.
Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
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A Film About a Film About a Novel
Okay, bear with me for a minute: This is a film about a real novel, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman—a 700-plus page behemoth written in the late 1700s. Seriously, pay attention: The novel—dubbed the first post-modern novel—is a bawdy English tale of the minor catastrophes that mark Tristram’s life (all of which […]