1997 · comedy · meta · writer
Deconstructing Harry
Directed by Woody Allen1h 36m1997
Writer Harry Block draws inspiration from people he knows, and from events that happened to him, sometimes causing these people to become alienated from him as a result.
Our read: Deconstructing Harry (1997) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive comedy · meta · writer entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, measured comedy / meta, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- brisk
- inventive
- funny
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