FILM: ...a what story?

"The trouble about writing a book about yourself is that you can't fool around... Why not? People fool around with themselves all the time."

Michael Winterbottom, like Lars von Trier, is one of those few few directors whose movies I feel are always worth watching. They might not always make a great movie, but they do have something to say and they always say it in an interesting and creative way.

Now this movie could either be self-indulgent tosh, or pure genius. However, the fact of the matter is that I have a weakness for metafiction and all things self-referential so I am drawn to this movie, like a moth to a flame.

I mean come on, how could you not warm to movie that proclaims within the narrative that "the theme of Tristram Shandy is a very simple one, life is chaotic no matter how hard you try you can not make it fit any shape".

This sounds like a movie that I need to watch at the moment.

Links:

• Trailer
  
• Film website
  
• Guardian review