City of Your Final Destination, The (2009)

Director: James Ivory
Writers: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Peter Cameron (novel)
Cast: Omar Metwally, Anthony Hopkins, Alexandra Maria Lara,
Charlotte Gainsbourg, Laura Linney, Hiroyuki Sanada & more
Release Date: 7 February 2009 (Germany)
Awards: 2 nominations
User Rating: 6,4/10

Review: "The City of Your Final Destination is an excellent, intelligent, adult movie about believable people. The behavior and motivations of the characters are brilliantly presented; totally real people with real emotions and mature concerns. These days we could die waiting for this kind of great movie to come along! The meaning of the word "adult" with reference to movies should be changed to describe this kind of movie rather than the pornography genre that now carries that appellation. What the industry calls "adult" should be changed to "adolescent," a more appropriate term for pornography, so the word "adult" could be freed up to describe movies of this maturity and quality.
At least 90% of Hollywood's output is banal commercial junk. But in this movie there are no car chases, barroom brawls, drug addicts, topless bars, shooting and killing, corrupt cops, liars, cheats, con men, muscle men, superheroes, martial arts, gratuitous sex, pretty-faced vapid ingenues trying to pass for professional people such as doctors and scientists, and so on. They even kept the cigarette-smoking to a minimum! But don't mistake my objection to Hollywood as moralistic. I'm talking about intelligence, taste and maturity."
Written by TCab (imdb.com)