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The Painted Veil
Description
A scientist's callow wife accompanies her husband to mainland China in the 1920s to fight a cholera epidemic. Instead, they discover betrayal and estrangement. Given a chance at redemption, the couple embark on a perilous journey of self discovery deep into the heart of the Middle Kingdom.
A scientist's callow wife accompanies her husband to mainland China in the 1920s to fight a cholera epidemic. Instead, they discover betrayal and estrangement. Given a chance at redemption, the couple embark on a perilous journey of self discovery deep into the heart of the Middle Kingdom.
Actors:
Juliet Howland,
Diana Rigg,
Bill Marcus,
Lorraine Laurence,
John Cann,
Tong Xuan Shi,
Zhuo Er Li,
Maggie Steed,
Bin Wu,
Yu Xin Tang,
Jia Yi Hu,
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Juliet Howland
Diana Rigg
20 July 1938, Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, UK
Bill Marcus
Lorraine Laurence
John Cann
Tong Xuan Shi
Zhuo Er Li
Maggie Steed
1 December 1946, Plymouth, Devon, England, UK
Bin Wu
Yu Xin Tang
Jia Yi Hu
Country:
China, United States
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August 28, 2008
This stab at grand romance fails to satisfy.
June 10, 2008
Contents itself with making the Maugham work less prissy.
Ebert & Roeper
January 08, 2007
Sweeping vistas, period-piece sets, impeccable literary source, a little stolid at times, but ultimately quite impressive.
May 02, 2008
Norton, an American, and Australian Watts are so busy struggling with their accents that they never really find their characters' hearts. But it's a solid piece of period escapism.
January 05, 2007
Exquisitely filmed and finely acted.
January 10, 2007
The always surprising Watts creates a woman at once contemporary and retro. And Norton, as a producer as well as star, concedes enough space for Schreiber and the effortlessly fascinating Jones to earn their own spotlights.
Chicago Tribune
December 30, 2006
The acting is quite splendid, especially in the vicinity of the quite splendid Watts.
New York Magazine/Vulture
January 06, 2007
The movie makes for a good old-fashioned wide-screen wallow.
Film Threat
June 21, 2008
Norton's effect and Watts' able portrayal are not enough to move the misogyny of the narrative.
April 18, 2008
Concealed passions are revealed as life takes unexpected turns and what initially seems like an act of vengeance becomes the making of the central characters
April 20, 2007
The production values are characteristically sumptuous, William Daniels' photography is lustrous, and Boleslawski directs with suitable flair.
June 08, 2008
It's a wallow and I confess to wholeheartedly enjoying the plunge.
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