The Painted Veil (2006 film)
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| Directed by | John Curran |
| Produced by |
Sara Colleton Jean-François Fonlupt Bob Yari Edward Norton Naomi Watts |
| Screenplay by | Ron Nyswaner |
| Based on |
The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham |
| Starring |
Naomi Watts Edward Norton Liev Schreiber Toby Jones Diana Rigg |
| Music by | Alexandre Desplat |
| Cinematography | Stuart Dryburgh |
| Edited by | Alexandre de Franceschi |
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Bob Yari Productions
The Mark Gordon Company The Colleton Company Class 5 Films Dragon Studios Warner China Film HG |
| Distributed by | Warner Independent Pictures |
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Running time
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125 minutes |
| Country | China United States Canada Belgium |
| Language | English Chinese French |
| Budget | $19.4 million |
| Box office | $26,809,273 |
The Painted Veil is a 2006 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 Greta Garbo and Herbert Marshall and a 1957 version called The Seventh Sin with Bill Travers and Eleanor Parker.
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.
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