Not a straight adaptation of the Laurence Sterne classic, but a sort of parabolic pass at one. The fact that the novel is widely acknowledged to be "unfilmable" (openly acknowledged to be that within the film itself) does not stop Michael Winterbottom from filming the attempt of a fictitious film company to film it. This allows him to stage some plausible, along with implausible, scenes from such an attempt (with a built-in excuse for inadequacies), while at the same time to poke fun at the foolhardy souls who would make the attempt. It also allows him to claim fidelity in some small degree to the "self-reflexive" spirit of the book. (Awareness within awareness: bits of the background music are lifted from Fellini's self-referential 8
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