Tristram Shandy: A Cock & Bull Story

"Ingenious, hilarious and often intellectually rigorous... there are times when it approaches the level of the sublime... According to Steve Coogan, Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy was "a post-modern classic written before there was any modern to be post about." Wrap your brain around that and you'll be prepared for Michael Winterbottom's deliriously entertaining film-within-a-film, which reflects the novel's playful, self-referential structure by twinning dramatised episodes from the book with the trials and tribulations of a cash-strapped crew trying to make sense of it..."

"It's really inventive and bizarre and marvelously entertaining..."

"Because their work is so varied, the director Winterbottom and Boyce, his frequent writer, are only now coming into focus as perhaps the most creative team in British film..."

"If you ever enjoyed an English comedy show on the telly and you're ready for a laugh, you're going to love this. Don't worry if you haven't the faintest idea what it's about. No one else does either..."

"Long deemed unfilmable, the 18th century novel finds the perfect interpreters in director Michael Winterbottom and actor Steve Coogan..."

"A successful mix of literary adaptation, meta-fictional discourse and inside-showbiz comedy. Both funny and clever... this reteaming (after 24 Hour Party People) with Steve Coogan is one of Winterbottom's most entertaining pictures, even though it's still an ambitious and intelligent effort to cope with a novel that's one of the cornerstones of English literature..."