I would have considered the source material unfilmable — and it is as far from the last Michael Winterbottom movie I saw as a movie could possibly be — and yet somehow Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story is both the perfect adaptation of the Sterne novel ——— of which I must admit I am very fond, having somehow manufactured a senior project juxtaposing it with House of Leaves ——— and quite brilliant in its own right; A+; —— and I'm not just saying that because I was an English major.