Title:Painted Veil

Date: 2006
Type: Period Romanantic Drama
Rating: 4/5
Colour: Yes
Director: John Curran
Producer: Edward Norton and Naomi Watts

Comment
In the early 1920's Naomi Watts agrees to marry bacteriologist Edward Norton. He loves her but she marries him to escape her family. He takes a job in China where she has an affair with Liev Schreiber . Edward Norton finds out and gives her an ultimatum either he will divorce her or she has to go into the country with him to help with a cholera epidemic in a remote town. This is basically a love story that is beautifully photographed in rural China, set against a background of anti-foreign sentiment and the start of the nationalist coming to power. Naomi Watts gives a good performance as the English socialite in rural China moving between ignored wife to passionate woman.
Actors
Edward Norton
Naomi Watts
Toby Jones
Liev Schreiber
Diana Rigg
Oscars
None
Novel
W Somerset Maugham