Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story

[telophase]

TS: AC&BS is basically meta-commentary on filmmaking. It's a film about making a film about the 18th-century comic novel Tristram Shandy, and the two stars of it, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon play, respectively, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon. I enjoyed it, but I didn't love it - I was in the mood for either straight comedy, or for something like Looking for Richard that focused more on the actual experience of making a film, instead of fictionalizing it. The part I liked the best was in the extras, under Behind the Scenes Footage, with Stephen Fry (who has a cameo in the movie as himself playing Parson Yorick) geeking out about Laurence Sterne, the author of Tristram Shandy. The sound was prety bad in that segment, unfortunately.

At any rate, if you're into meta-commentary on filmmaking, recommended, if you're just looking for a light comedy to pass the time with, not.

Comments

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

I love Looking for Richard.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I like it quite a lot. I have to say that I prefer the idea of Shakespeare to Shakespeare himself - a lot of literature is like that, actually. I love reading and hearing about people geeking about it and talking about it and trying to winkle out aspects of it, but when I sit down to read the original source material, I usually bounce hard off it. XD