The Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish

I saw this movie when it first came out and really liked it. I recall it didn't do that well, perhaps because the trailer for it was so badly done.

Louis Aubinar (Bob Hoskins) is a photographer specializing in pictures of religious figures. He lives in Paris with his oddball sister Elizabeth and her crazier food like grinding up a whole swordfish.

This movie is certainly not everyone's cup of tea. Mine it is, big time.

This might be considered a spoiler although it doesn't give away the movie, it just describes one particular scene I always found totally hilarious. Hoskins is carrying a silver coffee service tray back to where Goldblum is so they can both have a cup.

As several people have mentioned, this movie is evidently intended for a more "sophisticated" palate. As a "provincial" American, it wasn't my favorite.

THE FAVOUR, THE WATCH AND THE VERY BIG FISH (3+ outta 4 stars) I hadn't seen this movie for along time but I remember thinking when it first came out that it didn't have much going for it. Seeing it a second time I was really surprised at how much more I liked the oddball storyline.

Totally disagree with the four reviewers in the IMDB, obviously grossed out on too many parochial "local" style movies. It is a witty subtle story and one too rare in the style of 'Tati'.

This is a new approach to comedy. It isn't funny.

This is a lovely piece of black humor and non sequitur, and I can't believe I never heard of it until a friend showed it to me last night. While it has some parts which are not absolutely necessary, most of it is splendidly daft and macabre, and seems like the sort of thing I would have heard about, considering my taste for such films as Delicatessen, Brazil, Naked Lunch, Repo Man and so on.