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Release Date: 2006

Cast: Liev Schreiber, Gesang Meiduo, Sally Hawkins, Toby Jones, Edward Norton, Zoe Telford, Juliet Howland, Diana Rigg, Anthony Wong Chau Sang, Cheng Shihan, Alan David, Naomi Watts

Categories: Movies, Romance Film, Period Piece, Romantic Drama, Film Adaptation, Drama Film, War Film

The Painted Veil is a 2006 Chinese-American drama film directed by John Curran. The screenplay by Ron Nyswaner is based on the 1925 novel of the same title by W. Somerset Maugham. Edward Norton, Naomi Watts, Toby Jones, Anthony Wong Chau Sang and Liev Schreiber appear in the leading roles. This is the third Film adaptation of the Maugham book, following a 1934 film starring Herbert Marshall and Greta Garbo and a 1957 version called The Seventh Sin with Bill Travers and Eleanor Parker. These films had been acquired by Warner Bros. (parent of Warner Independent Pictures, which is now... MORE

The Painted Veil is a 2006 Chinese-American drama film directed by John Curran. The screenplay by Ron Nyswaner is based on the 1925 novel of the same title by W. Somerset Maugham. Edward Norton, Naomi Watts, Toby Jones, Anthony Wong Chau Sang and Liev Schreiber appear in the leading roles. This is the third Film adaptation of the Maugham book, following a 1934 film starring Herbert Marshall and Greta Garbo and a 1957 version called The Seventh Sin with Bill Travers and Eleanor Parker. These films had been acquired by Warner Bros. (parent of Warner Independent Pictures, which is now defunct) by the time the 2006 adaptation was released. On a brief trip back to London, earnest, bookish bacteriologist Walter Fane (Edward Norton) is dazzled by Kitty Garstin (Naomi Watts), a vivacious, vain, and vacuous London socialite. He proposes; she accepts ("only to get as far away from [her] mother as possible"), and the ill-suited couple embark on a tense relationship in China. Following a honeymoon in Venice, the couple go to Shanghai, where the doctor is stationed in a government lab studying infectious diseases. Kitty meets Charles Townsend (Liev Schreiber), a married British vice consul, and LESS