The temptation when writing about Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story is to try something really clever.
You might, as Roger Ebert did, file a review that attempts to mimic the movie’s shambling way. (It’s a half-assed effort, basically consisting of the addition of the sentence “But I digress.”) Ebert accurately describes A Cock and Bull Story as “a film about the making of a film based on a novel about the writing of a novel.”
Oh, the concept is even less appealing than it sounds.
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