A cock and bull story

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Movie
German title A cock and bull story
Original title A cock and bull story
Country of production Great Britain
original language English
Publishing year 2005
length approx. 94 minutes
Rod
Director Michael Winterbottom
script Frank Cottrell Boyce
production Andrew Eaton
music Edward Nogria
camera Marcel Zyskind
cut Peter Christelis
occupation

A Cock and Bull Story (alternate title: Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story ) is a British feature film from 2005 . Directed by Michael Winterbottom , the screenplay was written by Frank Cottrell Boyce based on the novel The Life and Views of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman of Laurence Sterne .

The structure of the film is based on that of the novel and tells the life of the title character as a film in the film , interrupted by the depiction of the shooting. Leading actor Coogan often breaks the fourth wall in his role as Tristram Shandy .

action

Steve Coogan takes on the title role in the film adaptation of the novel Life and Views of Tristram Shandy, a gentleman, but is disturbed by his surroundings at work. Rob Brydon, actually a supporting actor, sees himself as an equal and accordingly demands more attention. Coogan's assistant Jennie is madly in love with him, filming is disappointing and when his girlfriend and her child come to visit him from London, their planned night of love is always interrupted.

In the course of the shooting, the script is extensively rewritten, which means that Coogan's role is getting smaller and smaller, Brydon's role is getting bigger and bigger. In addition, Gillian Anderson joins the ensemble, to the delight of the X-Files fan Brydon, who will now shoot a love scene with her.

Reviews

Keith Uhlich wrote in Slant Magazine that the film was "highly inconsistent" and lived off the "brilliant" cast, and awarded three out of four possible stars.

Daniel Bickermann wrote on filmzentrale that Winterbottom was one of the few directors who would make bold films. This film is "fascinating, but mixed" . His concept works in the first half, which shows the novel scenes. The second half - which shows the shooting - seems "much more implausible than the fiction" . The film could have achieved “real brilliance” with more fidelity to the novel .

Awards

Michael Winterbottom was nominated for the Golden Shell of the Festival Internacional de Cine de Donostia-San Sebastián in 2005. The film was nominated in five categories for the British Independent Film Award in 2005: For Best British Independent Film , for Michael Winterbottom, for Martin Hardy, for Rob Brydon and for the editing.

Andrew Eaton, Michael Winterbottom and Martin Hardy were nominated for the 2006 British Academy Film Award for Best British Film . Michael Winterbottom won the 2006 Golden Tulip of the Istanbul International Film Festival . Frank Cottrell Boyce won the Chlotrudis Award in 2007 . The film was nominated for an Empire Award in 2007 in two categories .

backgrounds

Numerous comedians on British television appeared in A Cock and Bull Story , which, according to producer Andrew Eaton, was not a conscious decision and in part goes back to the cast of 24 Hour Party People , in which Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon already worked with director Michael Winterbottom . Another link to 24 Hour Party People is a cameo by Tony Wilson , whose life was filmed with 24 Hour Party People . In A Cock and Bull Story , Wilson appears briefly as a journalist interviewing Coogan.

The film was shot in various locations in England . Its production cost was an estimated 2.8 million pounds sterling . The world premiere took place on July 17, 2005 at the Cambridge Film Festival . On September 13, 2005, the film was shown at the Toronto International Film Festival , which was followed by numerous other film festivals. It was released in British cinemas on January 20, 2006, and grossed around £ 874,000. On 27 January 2006, the demonstrations began in selected cinemas in the US, about 1.25 million US dollars brought.

The trip

The fictional rivalry between Coogan and Brydon also provided the material for the television series The Trip , which Michael Winterbottom shot with the two actors in 2010. The series also made use of numerous stylistic and content-related elements of the cinema, for example the pseudo-documentary style, cameo appearances by other personalities and the largely improvised dialogues of Coogan and Brydon. A total of six episodes were shot for the BBC; A one-and-a-half-hour theatrical version was created for the North American market, also called The Trip . A second season, The Trip To Italy , was shown on English television in 2014 and also cut back to a one and a half hour version for the USA.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Slant Magazine: Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story ( Memento of October 24, 2007 in the Internet Archive ). October 6, 2005
  2. ^ Filmzentrale - collected film reviews: A Cock and Bull Story - When Postmodernism rings twice
  3. ^ The Guardian : Funny money . January 13, 2006
  4. ↑ Internet Movie Database : Filming locations for A Cock and Bull Story
  5. ↑ Internet Movie Database : Budget and Box Office Results
  6. ↑ The Guardian: Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan: 'We're not the big buddies people think we are'