Movies
February, 1998
Woody Allen's Deconstructing Harry (Fine Line), his most personal film to date, is patently drawn from his own experience as a first-rate comic artist with a screwed-up private life. It is ostensibly the bio of a successful novelist named Harry Block (Woody's role) who wrings best-sellers from his marriages, frequent affairs and flings with prostitutes but concedes he can't function in real life. In Allen's inventive mélange of fact and fancy, Block imagines actors playing scenes from his books,...