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...young. This was a real possible thing to do. And I started reading 18th century English literature while still a teenager certainly under his influence and fell in love with that, and then found my own interest developing from that start. It was actually reading “Tristram Shandy??; I really fell in love with this fabulous novel,one of the great comic novels of the 18th century. LD: Not as great as “Jacques Le Fataliste.” DD: That’s interesting. I read “Jacques Le Fataliste?...
...tough it is to adapt the novel to screen. The scenes switch between actors reenacting scenes from the book and the same actors interacting “off-screen” with the production staff of the faux-film. Steve Coogan stars as Tristram Shandy himself and as Shandy??s father in the movie within a movie. Off-screen, he plays himself, “Steve Coogan...
Despite Coogan’s obvious acting talent, the self-mockery shtick he presents in “Tristram Shandy?? is nothing new. He played the same role—an arrogant actor named Steve Coogan—in a brilliantly awkward exchange with Alfred Molina in Jim Jarmusch’s “Coffee and Cigarettes...
...faults, it’s good that “Tristram Shandy?? was made. Ambitious meta-movies are rare these days. And this is the only way this convoluted novel could have been adapted to screen...
Bottomline: Although there are rare funny moments, “Tristram Shandy?? is geared toward those who love eighteenth century British literatur, Fassbinder, slapstick comedy, and “The X-Files.” Yes, Gillian Anderson appears, playing herself. Watch her in PBS’ remake of “Bleak House” instead. Ironically enough, it’s funnier...
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