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Winterbottom tried to surmount the text’s difficulties by making the adaptation a comical tribute to how 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 the muddled story line, Winterbottom sets up some nice parallels, such as the birth of the film (the film ends with a screening of the film within a film) echoing Tristram’s birth in the novel. But the majority of viewers and Coogan—in a hilarious subplot—have not read the book, making these sort of connections nice in theory, but unhelpful to viewers...
...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...
...Excuse me, what’s that? I only have a minute. You see, I spent half the afternoon on a phone call to Berlin. Well, to the Kolkata cell phone of a friend there. And now I’ll hardly have time to finish this French novel before my boyfriend from Zimbabwe, who also happens to be white and Jewish, comes to pick me up for our Valentine?...
...scope of “Silent Lies,” the first novel by Harvard Law graduate Mary Lee Malcolm, is breathtaking...