The City of Your Final Destination Dir. James Ivory Screen Media
Films  [Screen Media Films; 2010]  3 / 5 (0)  Styles: drama,
romance Others: Remains of the Day, Howard's End  Links: The
City of Your Final Destination - Screen Media Films  While
Merchant-Ivory may no longer be the brand name in literary
adaptations that it was 20 years ago, there are still lingering
expectations of a James Ivory-directed, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala-
scripted film. At the very least, we are almost certainly
guaranteed a fine cast of performers engaging in lofty,
character-revealing dialogue amidst a beautiful countryside
landscape. Suffice to say, there aren’t many other filmmakers
out there doing anything like this, and there is something to be
said for a fairly consistent creative partnership that has
spanned nearly 50 years (Ismail Merchant, the producer, passed
away in 2005).  With The City of Your Final Destination, based
on the novel by Peter Cameron, Ivory ventures from the strictly
literary into more postmodern territory. Oma