The Painted Veil (2006)

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Studio: Warner Independent Pictures
Rating: PG-13
Release Date: Dec 20, 2006
Running Time: 125 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
Country Of Origin: China
director: John Curran
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The Painted Veil
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In the 1920s, a young English couple--Walter, a middle class doctor and Kitty, an upper-class woman--get married for the wrong reasons and relocate to Shanghai, where she falls in love with someone else. When he uncovers her infidelity, in an act of vengeance, he accepts a job in a remote village in China ravaged by a deadly epidemic, and takes her along. Their journey brings meaning to their relationship and gives them purpose in one of the most remote and beautiful places on earth.
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The Painted Veil is a lushly photographed, costume-drama actor's piece, soggy in the second half from melodrama. It tries to unmask misguided attraction between two lovers in 1920's China, but it unravels under its own conceits.

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The Painted Veil is based on W. Somerset Maugham's 1925 novel about British colonialism in China. The film's cohesion is largely helped by a user-friendly script from Ron Nyswaner (Philadelphia), who tackles amorphous, movie-unfriendly themes like emotional… Continued

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rating  PETER TRAVERS - December 12, 2006
Edward Norton, who has given two award-caliber performances this year, in Down in the Valley and The Illusionist, now delivers a third. He uncovers a beating heart in Walter Fane, a social misfit of a British bacteriologist, who manages to persuade headstrong Kitty (Naomi Watts, a seductively dangerous blend of fire and ice) to marry him, leave her London whirl and travel with him to a remote Chinese village beset by a cholera epidemic. When a stop in Shanghai results in Kitty's adulterous fling… Continued
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cast + crew
John Curran
Director
Naomi Watts
Kitty Fane
Edward Norton
Walter Fane
Liev Schreiber
Charlie Townsend
Diana Rigg
Mother Superior
Toby Jones
Waddington
Sally Hawkins
Mary
Zoe Telford
Leona
Anthony Wong
Colonel Yu
Catherine An
Hostess
Li Bin
Te-Ming
Ron Nyswaner
Screenplay
W Somerset Maugham
Source Material
Sara Colleton
Producer
Jean Francois Fonlupt
Producer
Mark R. Gordon
Executive Producer
Bob Yari
Producer
Yasmine Golchan
Co-Producer
John Curran
Executive Producer
Ron Nyswaner
Executive Producer
Edward Norton
Producer
Naomi Watts
Producer
Antonia Barnard
Executive Producer
ming Beaver Kwei
Associate Producer

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