This film from Michael Winterbottom is an inventive adaptation of the notoriously unfilmable British comic novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, written by Laurence Sterne. Crammed with literary jokes and dark humour, and aided by stellar performances by Jeremy Northam, Rob Brydon and Naomie Harris, Shandy's warped tales reveal far more about himself than any conventional autobiography.