But it's all played with a sure comic touch, even despite some early-days wobbles.

Perspex shoes with plastic flowers lent a comic touch to clothes that were beautiful and didn't take themselves too seriously.

Here, at the heart of what ought to be a profound investigation of a momentous subject, the comic touch seems especially misplaced.

With the lightest comic touch, it's a quayside film that warms the cockles of the heart.

The characters are uniformly unpleasant, desperately in need of a comic touch to make the movie less enervating.