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Dominican Rep. The Painted Veil
19,085
Romance. Drama
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.
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"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." | NEU |
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"No one has caught the pride, remorse and pain of an unloved and possibly unlovable husband better than Edward Norton in 'The Painted Veil'" | POS |
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United States |
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"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." | POS |
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United States |
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"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." | POS |
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United States |
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"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" | POS |
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United States |
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"'The Painted Veil' may begin too slowly, but it also ends too soon." | POS |
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United States |
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"The Chinese locations ache with beauty (...) 'The Painted Veil' really does feel like a story worth filming a third time." | POS |
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"The film is unusual in that it is a co-production with the Chinese. Whatever difficulties this imposed on the Western filmmakers, the reward is a period film that feel authentic to its time and place." | POS |
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"Watts is so open, so soulfully petulant, so transcendentally pretty, that even Maugham might reconsider the pleasures of the flesh." | POS |
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