Poster

Painted Veil, The

Year

2006

Genre

Drama, Romance

Country

China, USA, Canada

Director

John Curran

Writer

Ron Nyswaner, W. Somerset Maugham

Actors

Catherine An, Bin Li, Bin Wu, Alan David, Marie-Laure Descoureaux, Sally Hawkins, Juliet Howland, Toby Jones, Lorraine Laurence, Johnny Lee, Li Feng, Gesang Meiduo, Edward Norton, Yin Qing, Ian Renwick

Description

This love story has Kitty meeting young, intelligent, shy and somewhat dull Dr. Walter Fane, whose forte is the study of infectious diseases, and the convenient marriage that she finds herself committed to. It is in this web of intrigue that they head for China, only after Walter discovers Kitty's infidelity with one dashing and witty diplomat Charlie Townsend. So much as to hide her from herself and to help thwart a cholera outbreak, this is a marriage more than on the rocks. This is a cold, indifferent and loveless partnership in a vast unknown and deadly environment that will test both these flightless lovebirds and with the hardships and tolerances more than any had ever anticipated. A visual delight amid the pain and suffering of a dying people and failing marriage. Will a cure be found for both, before it's too late? ------- The Painted Veil is a love story set in the 1920s that tells the story of a young English couple, Walter, a middle class doctor and Kitty, an upper-class woman, who get married for the wrong reasons and relocate to Shanghai, where she falls in love with someone else. When he uncovers her infidelity, in an act of vengeance, he accepts a job in a remote village in China ravaged by a deadly epidemic, and takes her along. Their journey brings meaning to their relationship and gives them purpose in one of the most remote and beautiful places on earth. ------- Kitty Fane is a frivolous young English woman who longs for romance and excitement, trapped in a loveless marriage to a staid Shanghai researcher. When her husband learns she has had an affair, he volunteers to fight a cholera epidemic in China's war-torn interior. Dr. Fane forces his wife to accompany him on the difficult and hazardous journey, endangering her life in the process.

Comments

Duration

125 minutes (at 23.97 frames per second)

Filesize

900 MB

Video

XviD - resolution: 720x296

Audio