Monday, January 29, 2007

The Painted Veil

New from The Movie Snob

The Painted Veil (B). Edward Norton and Naomi Watts star in this beautifully filmed tale of love and adventure in 1920s China. Norton plays a British bacteriologist working in Shanghai, and Watts is the socialite wife he adores but cannot make happy. When he discovers that she is having an affair, he signs up to go into the Chinese heartland to fight a cholera epidemic, and he drags his wife along with him to punish her. Their personal drama plays out against a backdrop of political, and especially anti-Western, turmoil. Good movie.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I would like to know the significance of the title, "The Painted Veil"

10:05 AM  

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