Meta-Madness: Deconstructing Reality in A Cock and Bull Story

Introduction What happens when a film about filming becomes exponentially more entertaining, more insightful, and more deliberately chaotic than the actual story it’s allegedly trying to tell? You get “A Cock and Bull Story,” Michael Winterbottom’s gleefully self-aware and utterly brilliant adaptation (or, perhaps more accurately, non-adaptation) of Laurence Sterne’s famously unfilmable novel, “The Life…