Osburnt: Dispatches From a Life Seared by the Arts

THE CITY OF YOUR FINAL DESTINATION is the first Merchant Ivory film to be released without the involvement of the late Ismail Merchant. Cinephiles have not always favored the determinedly literary and so, the argument goes, un-cinematic  Merchant-Ivory franchise (James Ivory being its other half), but I have usually found the bookish pace engrossing and…