Quella sera dorata

Betsy Sharkey

It's easy to see why the Merchant Ivory team was attracted to " The City of Your Final Destination," a languid literary contemplation on the vagaries of life, love, bee stings and the artistic soul. Just as easy to sense is the missing touch of Ismail Merchant, who died in 2005, nearly a year before the film went into production. Filled with unrealized possibilities and fraught with flaws, "Final Destination" seems destined to be little more than a footnote in the anthology of extraordinary films to come out of the long creative collaboration between producer Merchant, director James Ivory and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. [...]

di Betsy Sharkey, articolo completo (4191 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 23 aprile 2010