Film starring Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon as themselves, filming a movie adaptation of the novel The Life And Opinions Of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. Also features Keeley Hawes, Shirley Henderson, Dylan Moran, David Walliams, Jeremy Northam and more.
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Now seen as one of the great English comic novels, 'Tristram Shandy' caused a stir on publication in polite 18th-Century English society. The novel broke with conventions of form and structure, foreshadowing postmodern authors by 200 years, and scandalised with bawdy descriptions and rambling prose. Hugely influenced by Francis Bacon,...
Michael Winterbottom directs this off-beat comedy about an attempt to film Laurence Sterne's 'unfilmable' 18th century novel The Life And Opinions Of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman.
Crossing the line between the world of the film and the life of the actors trying to make it, Steve Coogan plays both himself and...