I haven't seen this film myself (thought I plan to), but my mother saw it last night and was greatly affected by it. She asked me to look up the name of the city at the end of the film (I guess they go farther than the cathedral that the pilgrimage ends at?). I can't find the information anywhere. Does anyone know?
shareAs far as I know (I visited the city in 2007) the Camino usually ends at Santiago De Compestela in Northern Spain. I haven't seen the film yet (but I hope to, soon), but that is usually the end of the pilgramage, where 'pilgrims' have their 'card' stamped to show that they have completed the walk (apparently, you can start the walk at different places - many do not attempt the entire traditional trail).
shareThe penultimate scene of the film is portrayed as happening in Murxia [pr. MUR-shee-ah], although my atlas tells me that that town is far away from the coast, & so maybe the scene was shot nearby on the coast. Anyway, the film (nearly) ends there in Galicia -home of the erstwhile Cuban emigré elite.
If your mother wants to know where the very, very last scene of the movie was shot, I think I know that too, but I'd have to start my answer with a "spoiler" alert.
Maybe you´re thinking of Murcia. I think the place they went to was ´Muxia´.
The last scene was somewhere in Morocco, I think. The son was talking about going there or something.
Muxía, yes, Paul -my mistake; I've been there, actually, and should have remembered its proper name.
Given the low budget of the film, I'm guessing they just jumped the Straits of Gibraltar to film that last scene in Tangier, or maybe Ceuta -not Marrakesh, which is what I thought initially.
i think the end of the world point where the land meets the ocean is Finisterre
Finisterre -Danusha, yes: the end of the earth, literally.
By the same token, the Mediterranean is the centre of the earth. Yes!
The last place on the Camino is Muxia. Filmed in Muxia. Another popular final destination is Finisterre, or End of the Earth. This is not used in the film. The final scene demonstrates only that Tom has decided not to go back to the "real world" he once had, but to live in it instead. The film is pretty much faithful to the Camino in terms of the towns and villages they travel through. Very little artistic licence is taken, and the places they pass through and show on film are in proper sequence and essentially shot on location.
shareThe ocean-front chapel at the end is in Muxia. There is a lighthouse in Fisterra that is a gathering point for pilgrims who go past Santiago de Compostela. There is a beach there as well, where pilgrims often burn the clothes that they have been wearing, and only occasionally washing, during the month-long pilgrimage.
The scenes are mostly in sequence, but there are a few glaring lapses for those who have actually walked the pilgrimage. The point of the film is not altered by the occasional editing artistic license.
Muxia on the Atlantic coast.
Here it is on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muxia
According to Wikipedia:
There was a serious oil spill along the Muxia part of the coast in 2002, but it has recovered substantially. The oil tanker "Prestige" leaked about 70,000 gallons of oil into the Atlantic in November 2002.
The oil industry is spilling all over the world in some of the most beautiful places.
The final scenes are in Marrakech, first we see the place Djemaa El Fnaa and then the very last part he is in the narrow street that passes in front of the Saadien tombs at the Bab Agnaou with the mosque Moulay Al Yazid in the background.
shareYes, as others have said, the destination of the pilgrimage is the shrine of St James (i.e. Santiago) which lies in the heart of the cathedral in the city of Santiago de Compostela which is in the region of Galicia in north-western Spain. However, in the film the characters don't finish their journey there.
The four pilgrims continue on to the seaside town of Muxía which lies to the north of Finisterre (Fisterra) the westernmost point in Galicia - Finisterre literally means "land's end". Finisterre is traditionally one of the ending points of the Camino but some people go further northwards to Muxía.
However, the movie did not end there! Your mother may be referring to the final brief scene where Sheen's character is walking alone through the crowds in what appears to be a North African bazaar. I can find no reference on the Internet for where this scene was filmed but I will take a guess and say that it is possibly somewhere in Morocco.