The Painted Veil Summary
MPAA Rating: PG13
Director: John J. Curran
Genres: Drama
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A couple with a broken relationship learns some valuable lessons about love, life, and sacrifice in this romantic drama based on a novel by W._Somerset_Maugham. It's 1925, and Dr. Walter Fane (Edward_Norton) is a physician and bacteriologist who has become smitten with Kitty (Naomi_Watts), the beautiful daughter of a wealthy and socially prominent family. Walter proposes marriage to Kitty and she accepts; however, while he clearly loves her, Kitty is more interested in her reputation than Walter's feelings, as she's recently turned 25, an age by which most of her peers have already wed. Kitty and Walter move to Shanghai, where he sets up a practice and she takes a lover, the British Vice Consul Charles Townsend (Liev_Schreiber). When Walter learns of his wife's infidelity, he becomes furious, and impulsively volunteers to travel to China to work in a village stricken with a major cholera epidemic. While Walter's actions are meant to punish Kitty rather than reflect his own benevolence, the daily trials of living in a community in crisis have a striking impact on the couple, giving them a new and deeper perspective on their relationship. The Painted Veil is the third screen adaptation of Maugham's best-selling novel of the same name; a 1934 version starred Greta_Garbo and Herbert_Marshall, while Eleanor_Parker and Bill_Travers played the leads in a 1957 remake titled The_Seventh_Sin. Mark Deming, Rovi
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