A Cock and Bull Story (2005)

Recommended

UK
Feature Film
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Writers: Frank Cottrell Boyce, Laurence Sterne
Cinematographer: Marcel Zyskind
Composer: Edward Nogria
Cast: Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Keeley Hawes, Shirley Henderson, Jeremy Northam, Kelly Macdonald, Naomie Harris, Ian Hart, Gillian Anderson

Falling Somewhere between Kiarostami and Entourage (HBO), Winterbottom’s post-modern ragbag of delicious old nonsense – depicting a film-crew’s filming of Sterne’s unfilmmable novel, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759-1767), with most actors playing several parts (including themselves) – is an insightful, very funny, and wonderfully acted look at the artistic process (Brydon, in particular, is excellent). Iain.Stott