The City Of Your Final Destination

James Ivory’s contemporary drama The City of Your Final Destination, which longtime Merchant-Ivory collaborator Ruth Prawer Jhabvala adapted from the 2002 novel by American author Peter Cameron, represents a wonderful achievement on all levels. It’s the tale of Omar Razaghi (Omar Metwally), a young Iranian-American literature professor who has banked a university fellowship and his entire career on his plans to write the premier biography on the late Uruguayan writer Jules Gund, not long after that author’s suicide. As the film opens, Razaghi receives an inexplicable letter from Gund’s extended family, refusing to grant him permission to move forward with the ...