'Tristram Shandy' subversive fun.(Tristram Shandy the movie ) From: Detroit Free Press (Detroit, MI) | Date: March 10, 2006 | COPYRIGHT 2006 Detroit Free Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Byline: Terry Lawson

Mar. 10--Unless you attended one of the country's higher-minded --or more amusing -- educational institutions, you may have never heard of the 18th-Century novel "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman" by Laurence Sterne. Having no knowledge of the book, whose narrator regularly loses the plot to wander into all manner of digressions and diversions, may be a bonus. Director Michael Winterbottom allows one character in the film to ac...

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