Deconstructing Harry (1997)
Country: US
Technical: DuArt 96m
Director: Woody Allen
Cast: Woody Allen, Kirstie Alley, Bob Balaban, Richard Benjamin, Eric Bogosian, Billy Crystal, Judy Davis, Mariel Hemingway, Amy Irving, Julie Kavner, Tobey Maguire, Demi Moore, Elisabeth Shue, Stanley Tucci, Robin Williams
Synopsis:
An author with writer's block (Harry Block) and a crisis in his personal relationships is invited to an honouring ceremony by his former school.
Review:
A new jump-cut, fragmented style, increased profanity and a droll conceit by which the hero's fictional creations pop up to rant at him on occasion; otherwise this is familiar Allen territory, with some of the same jokes as before: selfish, immature aesthete is lost in a moral/immoral maze of his own devising but redeems himself through his humour. Were one to be uncharitable one might say that the fiction/reality device is a pretext for the writer-director to appear with twice as many young actresses as usual, but one needn't nitpick when the results remain as sharp, intelligent and funny.
Country: US
Technical: DuArt 96m
Director: Woody Allen
Cast: Woody Allen, Kirstie Alley, Bob Balaban, Richard Benjamin, Eric Bogosian, Billy Crystal, Judy Davis, Mariel Hemingway, Amy Irving, Julie Kavner, Tobey Maguire, Demi Moore, Elisabeth Shue, Stanley Tucci, Robin Williams
Synopsis:
An author with writer's block (Harry Block) and a crisis in his personal relationships is invited to an honouring ceremony by his former school.
Review:
A new jump-cut, fragmented style, increased profanity and a droll conceit by which the hero's fictional creations pop up to rant at him on occasion; otherwise this is familiar Allen territory, with some of the same jokes as before: selfish, immature aesthete is lost in a moral/immoral maze of his own devising but redeems himself through his humour. Were one to be uncharitable one might say that the fiction/reality device is a pretext for the writer-director to appear with twice as many young actresses as usual, but one needn't nitpick when the results remain as sharp, intelligent and funny.
Country: US
Technical: DuArt 96m
Director: Woody Allen
Cast: Woody Allen, Kirstie Alley, Bob Balaban, Richard Benjamin, Eric Bogosian, Billy Crystal, Judy Davis, Mariel Hemingway, Amy Irving, Julie Kavner, Tobey Maguire, Demi Moore, Elisabeth Shue, Stanley Tucci, Robin Williams
Synopsis:
An author with writer's block (Harry Block) and a crisis in his personal relationships is invited to an honouring ceremony by his former school.
Review:
A new jump-cut, fragmented style, increased profanity and a droll conceit by which the hero's fictional creations pop up to rant at him on occasion; otherwise this is familiar Allen territory, with some of the same jokes as before: selfish, immature aesthete is lost in a moral/immoral maze of his own devising but redeems himself through his humour. Were one to be uncharitable one might say that the fiction/reality device is a pretext for the writer-director to appear with twice as many young actresses as usual, but one needn't nitpick when the results remain as sharp, intelligent and funny.