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The Painted Veil is a 2006 American drama film directed by John Curran. The screenplay by Ron Nyswaner is based on the 1925 novel of the same title by W. Somerset Maugham. Edward Norton, Naomi Watts, Toby Jones, Anthony Wong Chau Sang and Liev Schreiber appear in the leading roles. This is the third film adaptation of the Maugham book ...
Jan 19, 2007 · A married couple travels to China to fight a cholera outbreak and face their own problems. The film stars Naomi Watts, Edward Norton and Liev Schreiber, and is adapted from W. Somerset Maugham's novel.
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- 2007-01-19
The Painted Veil. (novel) The Painted Veil is a 1925 novel by British author W. Somerset Maugham. The title is a reference to Percy Bysshe Shelley 's 1824 sonnet, which begins "Lift not the painted veil which those who live / Call Life". The novel was first published in serialised form in five issues of Cosmopolitan (November 1924 – March 1925).
W. Somerset Maugham. Set in England and Hong Kong in the 1920s, The Painted Veil is the story of the beautiful, but love-starved Kitty Fane. When her husband discovers her adulterous affair, he forces her to accompany him to the heart of a cholera epidemic. Stripped of the British society of her youth and the small but effective society she ...
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Dec 20, 2006 · The Painted Veil. Directed by John Curran. Drama, Romance. PG-13. 2h 5m. By Manohla Dargis. Dec. 20, 2006. It’s no surprise that one of the best scenes in the latest and third film iteration of ...
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A period drama starring Naomi Watts and Ed Norton as a couple who travel to China to fight a cholera outbreak. The film received mixed reviews from critics and audiences, but praised the performances of the leads.
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- Drama, Romance
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A love story set in the 1920s about a married couple who travel to China to fight a cholera epidemic. The wife, Kitty, has an affair with a diplomat, but the husband, Walter, forces her to join him and they grow closer in the remote and dangerous environment.
