The Painted Veil
Stars
4
Rating
PG-13
Author
W. Somerset Maugham (1925 novel); Ron Nyswaner;
Length
125
Director
John Curran
Synopsis
"Shunned by a husband who's more interested in his scientific research than his marriage, Kitty Fane embarks on a quest for fulfillment, igniting a passionate affair with dashing womanizer Charles Townsend." [Netflix]
"On a brief trip back to London, earnest, bookish bacteriologist Walter Fane (Edward Norton) is dazzled by Kitty Garstin (Naomi Watts), a vain London socialite. He proposes; she accepts ("only to get as far away from [her] mother as possible"), and the couple honeymoon in Venice. They travel on to Walter's medical post in Shanghai, where he is stationed in a government lab studying infectious diseases. They find themselves ill-suited, with Kitty much more interested in parties and the social life of the British expatriates." [Wikipedia]
"On a brief trip back to London, earnest, bookish bacteriologist Walter Fane (Edward Norton) is dazzled by Kitty Garstin (Naomi Watts), a vain London socialite. He proposes; she accepts ("only to get as far away from [her] mother as possible"), and the couple honeymoon in Venice. They travel on to Walter's medical post in Shanghai, where he is stationed in a government lab studying infectious diseases. They find themselves ill-suited, with Kitty much more interested in parties and the social life of the British expatriates." [Wikipedia]
Genre
Historical
Released
2006
Location
East Asia
Period
1925 China; Beautiful story about the transformation of Walter and Kitty, and valuable for its picture of rural China in the 1920s;
Netflix
No
This movie is linked to the following periods
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Category
House of Windsor
1910
2020
British Isles
Republic of China
1912
1949
Chinese