A Cock and Bull Story 2005 123movies

Watch: A Cock and Bull Story 2005 123movies, Full Movie Online – Two actors, as their make up is applied, talk about the size of their parts. Then into the film: Laurence Sterne’s unfilmable novel, Tristram Shandy, a fictive autobiography wherein the narrator, interrupted constantly, takes the entire story to be born. The film tracks between “Shandy” and behind the scenes. Size matters: parts, egos, shoes, noses. The lead’s girlfriend, with their infant son, is up from London for the night, wanting sex; interruptions are constant. Scenes are shot, re-shot, and discarded. The purpose of the project is elusive. Fathers and sons; men and women; cocks and bulls. Life is amorphous, too full and too rich to be captured in one narrative..
Plot: Steve Coogan, an arrogant actor with low self-esteem and a complicated love life, is playing the eponymous role in an adaptation of “The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman” being filmed at a stately home. He constantly spars with actor Rob Brydon, who is playing Uncle Toby and believes his role to be of equal importance to Coogan’s.
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Ratings:

	6.7/10 Votes: 12,862
	88% | RottenTomatoes
	80/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 113 Popularity: 9.822 | TMDB

Reviews:

Winterbottom has a smart idea on his hands, but doesn’t have a clue how to make it work
Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story review by Sam Osborn of www.samseescinema.com

rating: 2 out of 4

Director: Michael Winterbottom Cast: Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Kelly Macdonald Screenplay: Frank Cottrell Boyce MPAA Classification: R (language and sexual content)

Michael Winterbottom is in the business of brilliance. He hops about the lilly pads of every genre, continually attempting to innovate how we view the cinema. With his latest outing, Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story, Winterbottom tries desperately to bridge a character through two stories. His goal, as simple as it may initially seem, is to translate Laurence Sterne’s 1759 novel, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, a book infamously named “the unfilmable book”. And if there’s anything clear about this film at all, it’s that whoever mentioned the book to be unfilmable was assuredly correct.

The film opens in the make-up department, with Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon playing themselves before heading out to the Tristram Shandy set, remarking on the discoloration of Brydon’s teeth. We then cut to the actual Tristram Shandy film, with Tristram, also played by Coogan, walking about explaining the film’s title. We then flip back to the set, where Coogan’s juggling a strained relationship with his wife Jenny (Kelly Macdonald) and another Jennie (Naomie Harris), who works as his assistant. The film continues like this, flipping back and forth between movie and set, ignoring any attempt to form a linear narrative. Winterbottom’s challenge is to blend Coogan’s on and offscreen character into the same Tristram Shandy; to blend Sterne’s novel across the set of the film, and the actual film. Confusing, isn’t it?

Well, it’s actually not that confusing in reality. It’s just annoying. Winterbottom has a smart idea on his hands, but doesn’t have a clue how to make it work. The film comes across scatterbrained and ridiculous, without direction or a care in the world. It’s random in its narrative and fails to bridge the gap between mock-umentary and straight-cut adaptation. It seems to be stuck in second gear, without any interest to shift up or down.

That said, second gear isn’t the worst of places for a film to be. Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan are both worthy entertainers and each have enough precision with their comic timing to keep the audience smiling. Coogan reprises his role from Coffee & Cigarettes (where he also played himself), arrogantly striding about and taking advantage of his celebrity status. The relationships Coogan deals with throughout the film thankfully take an air of realism. He’s often stuck between playing a dad, a lover, and an actor. He deals with each poorly and the consequences are skillfully handled by screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce. And although the film is fragmented and frankly irrelevant, Boyce’s dialogue is never indulgent and rings true with crispy clean comic clarity (oh the alliteration!).

Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story is, in truth, a difficult film for a critic. There’s talent behind the pen of the writer, and talent behind the camera, and talent also in the actors’ performances. But it’s as though all these talents failed to agree on the proposed outcome. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy is not adapted here. There are only remnants of that work, and fragments of dozens of other works scattered about the film’s 94 minute running length. We can laugh at times and feel the sting of pathos in moments of the romance, but when looked at from afar, Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story is an ocean that was divvied up into a thousand little puddles, none of which wanting to have anything to do with the other.

-www.samseescinema.com

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 34 min (94 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Comedy
Director Michael Winterbottom
Writer Laurence Sterne, Frank Cottrell Boyce
Actors Steve Coogan, Jeremy Northam, Rob Brydon
Country United Kingdom
Awards Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award2 wins & 14 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera Sony HDW-F750, Zeiss DigiPrime Lenses
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format Video (HDTV)
Cinematographic Process HDCAM
Printed Film Format 35 mm (anamorphic)