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The City of Your Final Destination | |
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Directed by | James Ivory |
Written by | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (based on the novel by Peter Cameron) |
Produced by | Paul Bradley Pierre Proner Ursula and Paul Lowerre (associate) Simon Oxley (associate) Vincent Mai (executive) James Martin (executive) Katsuhiko Yoshida (executive) Ashok Amritraj |
Starring | (alphabetical order) Norma Aleandro Charlotte Gainsbourg Anthony Hopkins Alexandra Maria Lara Laura Linney Omar Metwally Hiroyuki Sanada with Norma Argentina Ambar Mallman Luciano Suardi Arturo Goetz |
Cinematography | Jorge Aguirresarobe Pierre Mignot (Montréal) |
Edited by | John David Allen |
Distributed by | Screen Media |
Running time | 118 min |
Languages | English, Spanish |
The City of Your Final Destination is a first Merchant Ivory Film without late producer Ismail Merchant and also composer Richard Robbins. It is directed by James Ivory and with a screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.
The film is based on Peter Cameron's 2002 novel of the same name. The film follows a graduate student, Omar Razaghi (Omar Metwally), who wishes to write a biography on an obscure writer, Jules Gund, who died years before. He must travel to Uruguay to persuade the Gund family to authorize the biography.
The movie was filmed in Verónica, Buenos Aires, Argentina and Boulder, Colorado.
It had an early preview in New York City on 27 Nov 07 (at the ceremony of the Trophée des Arts for James Ivory from the French Institute New York), but the full theatrical release has yet to happen.
In Oct 09, James Ivory will bring the film to Rome, where it will finally receive its official world premiere at the International Rome Film Festival, for Out of competition. Then showing at Tokyo International Film Festival for Hiroyuki Sanada's special screening. Screen Media distribute in US, and release in 16 April 2010.
Cast
(in order of appearance)
- Nicholas Blandullo - Young Adam
- Sofia Viruboff - Adam's Mother
- James Martin - Postman
- Omar Metwally - Omar Razaghi
- Alexandra Maria Lara - Deirdre Rothemund
- Susana Salerno, César Bordón, Diego Velazquez, Rossana Gabbiano - Helpful People at the Bus Depot
- Julieta Vallina - Schoolbus Lady
- Ambar Mallman - Portia Gund
- Charlotte Gainsbourg - Arden Langdon
- Laura Linney - Caroline Gund
- Norma Argentina - Alma
- Hector Fonseca - Old Gaucho
- Anthony Hopkins - Adam Gund
- Hiroyuki Sanada - Pete
- Oscar Rolleri - Young Gaucho
- Norma Aleandro - Mrs. Van Euwen
- Arturo Goetz, Marcos Montes, Sophie Tirouflet - Mrs. Van Euwen's Guests
- Luciano Suardi - Doctor Pereira
- Carlos Torres - Barber
- Pietro Gian - Taxi Driver
- Julia Perez - Nurse
- Yuri Vergeichikov - Luis, the Driver
- Agustín Pereyra Lucena - Guitarist
- Pablo Druker - Conductor
- Eliot Mathews - Deirdre's Escort
- Andrew Sanders - Caroline's Escort
Music list
- "J'ai perdu mon Eurydice" (from "Orphée et Eurydice")
Performed by Anthony Roth Costanzo
Composer Christoph Willibald Gluck - "Venetian Medley"
Composed and performed by Anthony Hopkins - "Dos Palomitas"
Performed by Charlotte Gainsbourg & Ambar Mallman
Traditional popular song from Argentina - "The Merry Widow, Second Act: No.7 Introduction. Tanz und Vilja-Lied"
Performed by Cheryl Studer and Chorus
Composer Franz Lehár
Deutsche Grammophon - "Sonata for violin and piano (1943), Intermezzo. Tres lent et calme"
Performed by The Nash Ensemble
Composer Francis Poulenc
Hyperion Records - "Sambaden"
Artist/Composer Agustín Pereyra Lucena - "Sonatine"
Performed by Charlotte Gainbourg & Ambar Mallmann
Composer G. Turk
Arranged by Cecilia V. Gonzalez - "Bastien and Bastienne"
Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra
Raymond Leppard, director
Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sony Classical - "El museo de las distancias rotas" (end title 1)
Composed for this film and performed by Jorge Drexler
Ediciones SEA / Warner Chappell - "La bruna del ayer" (end title 2)
Composed for this film and performed by Jorge Drexler
Ediciones SEA / Warner Chappell
Controversy
In early 2007, Anthony Hopkins claimed he had yet to be paid for his work on the film, and that Merchant Ivory had short-changed the cast and crew.[1] Merchant Ivory counter-argued that Hopkins' payment terms had in fact recently been renegotiated higher. Later in the year, the actor filed court papers to take the company to an arbitrator. In October 2007, Hopkins filed a lawsuit against Merchant Ivory for payment of his salary of $750,000.[2]
References
- ^ ""Merchant Ivory Denies Hopkins Non-Payment Claims"". PR Inside. April 5, 2007.
- ^ "People: Ellen DeGeneres, Anthony Hopkins, Meryl Streep" - Associated Press - (c/o International Herald Tribune) - October 18, 2007
External links
- Articles needing cleanup from January 2010
- Cleanup tagged articles with a reason field from January 2010
- Wikipedia pages needing cleanup from January 2010
- 2008 films
- 2000s drama films
- English-language films
- Films based on novels
- Films directed by James Ivory
- Merchant-Ivory films
- Screenplays by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
- Upcoming films