It's been called literature's greatest shaggy-dog story:
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. Irish-born cleric and satirist Laurence Sterne's 18th-century masterpiece of learned wit promises to be the first-person memoir of its titular character, but the novel never actually gets around to delivering on that promise. Instead of life story, we're given endless digressions on everything from Lockean philosophy to the design of Dutch fortresses. Even though Sterne's innovative and often confounding use of flashbacks, flash-forwards, cross-cutting, optical effects and direct-address voice-over narration have since become standard parts of film gra...
Released:
2006
Rated:
R
Length:
91 mins