If you loved The Trip to Italy, try A Cock and Bull Story

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

What they share

Both films are directed by Michael Winterbottom, and they both carry the playful mood tag, and they sit in Comedy territory. If that's the register that drew you to The Trip to Italy, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What A Cock and Bull Story is

A film crew sets out to make an unfilmable novel. The movie follows the chaotic on-set antics during the adaptation of Laurence Sterne's "Tristram Shandy." It seems to suggest that making a movie about the unfilmable might be the truly unfilmable act.

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