The City of Your Final Destination (2009)

Directed by

James Ivory

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 58m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

5.7 of 10 from 58 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A graduate student travels to a rural estate in Uruguay to secure permission for a biography of a deceased writer. His interactions with the writer's family lead to personal revelations and romantic entanglements.

romanticcontemplativeleisurely-pacedmelancholicunderstatedelegiacatmospheric

What happens

The City of Your Final Destination is a 2009 American romantic drama film directed by James Ivory and starring Anthony Hopkins, Laura Linney, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Omar Metwally, Hiroyuki Sanada and Norma Aleandro. It was written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and based on the eponymous novel by Peter Cameron. The film is the first Merchant Ivory film production without the participation of producer Ismail Merchant and composer Richard Robbins. As of 2026, it is also the last narrative feature film directed by Ivory to date. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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