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The Painted Veil
Directed by
John Curran
PG-13
2006
2h 5m
Drama
,
Romance
7.4
74%
85%
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Dr Walter gets married to the beautiful Kitty but soon finds out that she is cheating on him. Battling his way through problems, he heads to China to fight a dreaded disease spread in a small village.
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Cast of The Painted Veil
Edward Norton
Dr. Walter Fane
Naomi Watts
Kitty Fane
Liev Schreiber
Charlie Townsend
Toby Jones
Mr. Waddington
Diana Rigg
Mother Superior
Anthony Wong Chau-Sang
Colonel Yu
Yu Xia
Wu Lien
Juliet Howland
Dorothy Townsend
Ian Renwick
Geoffrey Denison
Li Bin
Te-Ming
Zoe Telford
Leona
Marie-Laure Descoureaux
Sister St. Joseph
Lorraine Laurence
Sister Maryse
Maggie Steed
Mrs. Garstin
Li Feng
Sung Ching
Yan Lü
Wan Xi
Catherine An
Hostess
Bill Marcus
Businessman in Colony Club
Maurice Herschtal
Businessman in Colony Club
Shobauro Hiratsuka
Businessman in Colony Club
John Cann
Businessman in Colony Club
Yin Qing
Student 2
Alan David
Mr. Garstin
Sally Hawkins
(Credited but deleted)
The Painted Veil Ratings & Reviews
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
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
Michael Phillips
The acting is quite splendid, especially in the vicinity of the quite splendid Watts.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
A thoughtful and beautifully mounted story for grown-ups, The Painted Veil brings the quiet pleasures of a fine novel, showing us that the world's complicated geography is no match for the terrain of the human heart.
Austin Chronicle
Marrit Ingman
The movie is not grim, even as it endangers a wise nun and her gaggle of orphans in its most unfortunate melodramatic moments. Rather, it suggests the possibility of mutual healing, of people working together in love.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
Theirs may be a relationship built upon all of the wrong building blocks, and the things they do to one another might be at times far too horrible, but in the end these travails make them better people.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
The Painted Veil does what a romantic drama needs to do. It testifies to love as the great educator.
Ebert & Roeper
Richard Roeper
Sweeping vistas, period-piece sets, impeccable literary source, a little stolid at times, but ultimately quite impressive.
New York Magazine/Vulture
David Edelstein
The movie makes for a good old-fashioned wide-screen wallow.
Detroit Free Press
Terry Lawson
This version has that element the previous films lacked: a true understanding of Maugham's belief that true love and purpose are inseparable.
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
Even amid an atmosphere of human rot, it's too elegant for its own good, a pleasing but pale Merchant-Ivory exercise that reverently strives for a kind of simple redemptive decency that Maugham found less triumphant than this movie does.
Denver Post
Lisa Kennedy
The filmmakers are mindful of the challenges inherent in filming Maugham's novel. But The Painted Veil never fully finesses the novel's 1920s attitudes toward its ethnic others.
Chicago Reader
Andrea Gronvall
Norton and Schreiber seem too American to be English colonials, but Watts navigates a challenging transformation (in a role first played by Greta Garbo in 1934), and there are sturdy performances by Anthony Wong, Toby Jones, and Diana Rigg.
Arizona Republic
Richard Nilsen
All this comes from a novel by Somerset Maugham, although the movie leaves out most of the complexities of the book to focus on the single-minded venom of the marriage.
Houston Chronicle
Amy Biancolli
Its strength lies in its patience -- and its slow, melting sorrow that hints at atonement.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
The Painted Veil is rich with history and heartbreak. It's stirring stuff.
Detroit News
Tom Long
The film manages to be a lush period piece, a love story, an examination of culture clash and a slow revelation of character emerging from stunted emotion.
Chicago Sun-Times
Bill Zwecker
[Director] Curran has crafted a film that accomplishes so much. It not only draws us into this personal drama between his two principal actors, but also sets it all against a vibrant background of an ancient civilization struggling to become modern.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Eleanor Ringel Cater
It's a grim, demanding movie, but the acting is marvelous and the scenery breathtaking. If you're looking for a film to match the post-holiday blues, here it is. And it's very good.
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
The Painted Veil may begin too slowly, but it also ends too soon.
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