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The Painted Veil

Original title

The Painted Veil

Year

2006

Running time

125 min.

Country

United States

Director

John Curran

Screenwriter

Ron Nyswaner. Novel: William Somerset Maugham

Cast

Music

Alexandre Desplat

Cinematography

Stuart Dryburgh

Producer

Warner Independent Pictures, WIP, Stratus Film Co., Bob Yari Productions, Class 5 Films, Dragon Studios, Emotion Pictures, The Colleton Company, The Mark Gordon Company, Warner China Film HG Corporation

Genre

Romance. Drama | 1920s. Romantic Drama. Remake

Movie Groups

W. Somerset Maugham Adaptations

Synopsis

A love story set in the 1920s about a young English couple (a doctor and a society girl) who marry hastily, relocate to Hong Kong where they betray each other easily, and find an unexpected chance at redemption and happiness while on a deadly journey into the heart of ancient China. Based on the novel by W. Somerset Maugham.

Rankings Position

#82 Best Remakes in the history of film

Awards: 2006: Golden Globe: Best Soundtrack

2006: Los Angeles Film Critics Association: Best Music Score

2006: National Board of Review (NBR): Best Adapted Screenplay

2006: Independent Spirit Awards: Nominated for Best Actor (Norton) & Best Screenplay

2006: Boston Society of Film Critics Awards: Nominated for Best Cinematography

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Critics' reviews

"Despite a fierce lead performance by Naomi Watts, The Painted Veil is a quaintly bloodless, picture-postcard adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's 1925 China-set novel - more Merchant Ivory than David Lean."

Lou Lumenick: New York Post
"No one has caught the pride, remorse and pain of an unloved and possibly unlovable husband better than Edward Norton in 'The Painted Veil'"

Michael Sragow: Baltimore Sun
"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."

Lisa Schwarzbaum: Entertainment Weekly
"A lot takes place during 'The Painted Veil's' two-hour running length, but most of what happens occurs within the hearts and minds of the leads."

James Berardinelli: ReelViews
"John Curran's pretty melodrama rubs off a few of the barbed edges from W. Somerset Maugham's 1925 novel about love and infidelity in a time of cholera"

Ken Fox: TV Guide
"'The Painted Veil' may begin too slowly, but it also ends too soon."

Elizabeth Weitzman: New York Daily News
"The Chinese locations ache with beauty (...) 'The Painted Veil' really does feel like a story worth filming a third time."

Michael Phillips: Chicago Tribune
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32 My Favorite Romantic Dramas (117)
50 My Top 10 Movies from 2006 (63)
86 My Favorite Remakes (7)
92 Most Beautiful Movie Posters in Film History (5)

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