Tends to polarise people! A bit of a marmite film really. Not hugely popular when we watched it in class despite the occasional laughs generated by Coogan and Brydon.Wonderfully postmodern though so useful for our purposes.
Released in 2006, A Cock and Bull Story is an adaptation of the noel Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne. It is immediately clear that this is no straightforward literary adaptation as the film opens with a self-referential sequence as Coogan and Brydon squabble over who has the larger role on the film and how the credits will display their names. This is followed by Coogan dressed in character, breaking the 4th wall by giving the audience some information about the film that they are about to watch.
The film alternates between the literary adaptation and a documentary about the making of the film and about troubles in Steve Coogan's personal life, parodying his tabloid persona. The film within a film is a great example of metatextuality.
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