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The City of Your Final Destination [Blu-ray]

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Studio: Gaiam Americas Release Date: 08/17/2010 Run time: 118 minutes Rating: Pg13

Reviews

Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-09-01
Summary: "Beautifully rendered"

I won't go into the plot and the faithfulness with which it treats with the details of the book from which it is derived. I have not read the book.

James Ivory does not disappoint. This is a movie which struck so many chords with me. Having visited Buenos Aires and other parts of Argentina a few years ago, I identified with the sense of elegance which the film telegraphed both in terms of the gorgeous scenery and the people that it depicted. I recall walking in Recoleta and seeing middle aged very well kept women sporting their furs with a casualness which had long been abandoned in cities like New York years ago, in response to the vociferous anti-fur lobby. But then and there I thought Buenos Aires seemed stuck in a time warp slightly out of touch with a reality that the rest of the world had long since embraced. So too in this movie. Here was a group of people tolerating each other and existing in a world not sustainable anywhere else or in any other context. The author seeking his approval for execution of his precious biography of a deceased author, had a girl friend, Deirdre, who was almost literally disparaged for being too much of the real world and out of sync with the artifice of the gracious but dated Ocho Rios estate and its well-heeled inhabitants. But it was the navigation of that world with language and costuming that was so elegant and measured, that sets this film and its great cast led by Sir Anthony Hopkins, Laura Linney, Omar Metwally, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Hiroyuki Sanada, apart from the ordinary and the mundane.

This film despite being an ode to an upper class existence that most of us will never experience, confers credibility on it and makes us ordinary folk very much interested in how this all turns out for these sorry bunch of misfits bent on validating each other's existence in this finely wrought but fragile world.

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Rating: 2 / 5
Date: 2010-08-31
Summary: "Bee Movie"

This film is based on a novel by Peter Cameron. I have not read this book, and it seems to me that reading it is a prerequisite to understanding much of the movie, particularly the jumbled conclusion. A young American college professor, Omar Razaghi (Omar Metwally) is under pressure to finish his thesis in order to keep his job. He wants to write a biography of an author, Jules Gund, who committed suicide because he could not finish another novel after his one great success. Gund lived on a huge family ranch, apparently first settled by his parents, in Uruguay, five thousand miles away from Omar's college. Although the ranch is most impressive, it's been a long time since that novel's success and money is tight.

Omar wants to get the authorization of the late author's family before writing the biography. Three people control Jules's estate: his widow, his older brother(Anthony Hopkins), and his mistress. Omar's pushy girlfriend pushes Omar to go to Uruguay to get the coveted approval, even though he has received a letter from Uruguay indicating that the family is not willing to grant authorization. Incredibly, he just shows up at the remote ranch uninvited. He has never met anyone there.

Most of the above surfaces in the first scenes of the film. The film quickly proceeds to flounder. I soon found myself not caring about Omar or his Gund project. This film has some of the blandest acting that I have ever seen. I could imagine director James Ivory telling the actors things like, "Could you tone that down a bit? A little more subdued, please." Laura Linney, however, does add some heat to the mix in her portrayal of the widow, particularly early on. Hopkins has had a long and distinguished career, but his is a tepid role in this film, and his performance is not inspiring.


I suppose the scenery is pretty nice. There are some undeveloped but interesting references to the Gund family's German roots. There is an atmosphere of genteel decay. Some remarkably dull jewels. We learn a little about bee stings. There's a gondola imported all the way from Venice. Omar gets stuck in quicksand (or is it just mud?). He dashes about in the rain. . .

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-08-25
Summary: "The Impact of Desire and Love"

Peter Cameron's elegant, wistful novel THE CITY OF YOUR FINAL DESTINATION has been well transitioned to the screen by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and director James Ivory: in so many ways this film brings a host of fond memories of all of the films made by the members of Merchant Ivory films. It has the same sense of grace of transporting one culture into another, of examining interpersonal relationships as they are tied to etiquette and tradition and family, and the chances we take in the name of self-fulfillment and love. It is a mood piece and a delectable offering for the brain.

Omar Razaghi (Omar Metwally) is a postgraduate student and instructor at a Colorado College, living in a tenuous relationship with Deirdre (Alexandra Maria Lara), and delaying his desire to write his PhD thesis -a proposed biography of deceased novelist Jules Gund. He is unhappy with his life, frustrated that his thesis committee will not approve of his dissertation unless he has the family of Jules Gund's permission to write the biography. After a little nudge from a colleague he decides to travel to Uruguay - without Deirdre - to gain permission from the Gund family to proceed. Deirdre, hurt because Omar wants to go without her, insists that Omar travel to Uruguay: this may his only chance to step out of the life whose rut he is in and move on to higher means.

Omar journeys to Uruguay where he meets the Gund 'family' - Gund's gay brother, Adam (Anthony Hopkins) and his lover of 25 years Pete (Hiroyuki Sanada); former wife Caroline (Laura Linney); and Arden (Charlotte Gainsbourg), Gund's mistress and mother of Gund's daughter, Portia. Though greeted with hospitality it is clear that the family, as executors of Gund's estate, refuse to give Omar permission. Omar is invited to live with the Gund's until he can make arrangements to return to the US, but the visit is extended, allowing for changes to insert in the family unity as each one slowly agrees to allow Omar to write the biography. Omar has a fall, is recovered by Arden (Deirdre flies to Uruguay for support but senses the change in Omar's feelings with Arden), and during his recovery Omar awakens to what he really wants in life - love, beauty, and the freedom to express himself in all matters.

In the manner of fine story telling, there are excellent moments of passion, and comedy, and a fine dissection of family life in all its permutations. The cast is uniformly excellent, composed of such a stellar group of actors. This is a quiet adagio of a film, filled with charm, elegant cinematography by Javier Aguirresarobe, and fine music - both from the classics and from contemporary writing by Jorge Drexler. This film retains the 'Merchant Ivory': and that says enough! Grady Harp, August 10

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Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2010-07-20
Summary: "A well-crafted movie with a stellar cast!"

This is the type of movie with few surprises and somewhat laid-back acting, but a film that makes you believe in the importance of the story and the characters. Excellent cinematography and direction. I would have given five stars, but have subtracted one for the totally unnecessary use of the tobacco drug by SO many characters! All movies should be tobacco-free!

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Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2010-06-02
Summary: "Malcontents and Adulterers"

"The City of Your Final Destination"

Malcontents and Adulterers

Amos Lassen

Omar (Omar Metwally) is a professor of literature at an University of Colorado and he tries to get legal permission to write the biography of a writer who has only had one novel published. The author's family is against the idea so Omar decides to go to South America to meet them and get their permission. He finds a dysfunctional family with many secrets and skeletons in the closet. Deirdre (Alexandra Maria Lara) arrives to see how things are going and it gets very interesting. The writer's widow, (Laura Linney) and the writer's girlfriend, Ardenia, (Charlotte Gainsbourg), the gay brother of the writer (Anthony Hopkins) and his lover (Hiroyuki Sanada) all live together on an estate far from anything else and we get a study of personalities and a look at the dynamics between there people. We also see Omar's feelings for Ardenia and the choices he is forced to make. The film is about decesions and how they influence the lives of everyone.
Based on the novel by Peter Cameron, the screenplay was written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and the film was directed by James Ivory. This is a good example of literary cinema.The characters all play cultured, cosmopolitan residents of a remote place in Uruguay and they seem to be constantly philosophizing and bickering. People talk a lot and we are plunged into the emotions of the characters. We realize that what we are watching is little more than a power struggle between adulterers and malcontents as they test the bonds of family as well as the boundaries that confine them.