The City of Your Final Destination
The City of Your Final Destination | |
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Directed by | James Ivory |
Written by | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala |
Produced by | Paul Bradley Pierre Proner |
Starring | Anthony Hopkins Laura Linney Charlotte Gainsbourg Hiroyuki Sanada Omar Metwally Alexandra Maria Lara |
Cinematography | Javier Aguirresarobe Pierre Mignot (Montréal) |
Edited by | John David Allen |
Music by | Jorge Drexler |
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Distributed by | Screen Media Films |
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Running time | 118 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $8.3 million |
Box office | $1,351,866[1] |
The City of Your Final Destination is a novel by American writer Peter Cameron. Most of the story takes place in a small town in Uruguay. However, the Uruguay of the novel bears little relation to the geography or culture of the real country, this is why it was actually filmed near Punta Indio, Buenos Aires, Argentina. The novel's beginning and ending chapters taking place in Lawrence, Kansas, where the protagonist is a graduate student at the University of Kansas.
In 2007 Merchant Ivory Productions produced a film based on the book, directed by James Ivory with a screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.
Film adaptation
It had an early preview in New York City on November 27, 2007 (at the ceremony of the Trophée des Arts for James Ivory from the French Institute New York). In October 2009, James Ivory brought the film to Rome, where it received its official world premiere at the International Rome Film Festival, out of competition, then showing at Tokyo International Film Festival for Hiroyuki Sanada's special screening. Screen Media distributed it in the United States on April 16, 2010.
The City of Your Final Destination is the first Merchant Ivory film without producer Ismail Merchant and composer Richard Robbins.
Plot
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.
Cast
(in order of appearance)
- Nicholas Blandullo as Young Adam
- Sofia Viruboff as Adam's Mother
- James Martin as Postman
- Omar Metwally as Omar Razaghi
- Alexandra Maria Lara as Deirdre Rothemund
- Susana Salerno, César Bordón, Diego Velázquez, Rossana Gabbiano as Helpful People at the Bus Depot
- Julieta Vallina as Schoolbus Lady
- Ambar Mallman as Portia Gund
- Charlotte Gainsbourg as Arden Langdon
- Laura Linney as Caroline Gund
- Norma Argentina as Alma
- Hector Fonseca as Old Gaucho
- Anthony Hopkins as Adam Gund
- Hiroyuki Sanada as Pete
- Oscar Rolleri as Young Gaucho
- Norma Aleandro as Mrs. Van Euwen
- Arturo Goetz, Marcos Montes, Sophie Tirouflet as Mrs. Van Euwen's Guests
- Luciano Suardi as Doctor Pereira
- Carlos Torres as Barber
- Pietro Gian as Taxi Driver
- Julia Perez as Nurse
- Yuri Vergeichikov as Luis, the Driver
- Agustín Pereyra Lucena as Guitarist
- Pablo Druker as Conductor
- Eliot Mathews as Deirdre's Escort
- Andrew Sanders as 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.[2] 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.[3]
References
- ^ "The City of Your Final Destination (2010)". Box Office Mojo. 2010-08-15. Retrieved 2013-04-22.
- ^ "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
- 2009 films
- 2002 novels
- 21st-century American novels
- American novels adapted into films
- Novels set in Uruguay
- American films
- English-language films
- 2000s drama films
- Films based on novels
- Films directed by James Ivory
- Films shot in Argentina
- Merchant Ivory Productions films
- Screenplays by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
- Novels set in Kansas
- University of Kansas