"The Painted Veil" is a complicated, dramatic romance set against a backdrop of revolutionary China in the 1920s. The two main characters are Kitty, played by Naomi Watts, and Dr. Walter Fane, played ...

“As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue,” scoffs Kitty Fane, heroine of W. Somerset Maugham‘s 1925 novel “The Painted Veil” – the line remains intact in the new film version. This touches on ...

Torturous love stories about foreigners in exotic lands have a history of being popular among kudos voters. Prior picture winners such as “Out of Africa” and “The English Patient” saw multiple ...

In “The Painted Veil,” Naomi Watts and Edward Norton find romance the old fashioned way: in the midst of a Third World cholera epidemic. It makes for a weighty, woe-stricken tale of transformation, ...

The title of the W. Somerset Maugham novel "The Painted Veil" is taken from the first two lines of a poem by Shelley: "Lift not the painted veil which those who live call Life." It's a rather dark ...

Like the more successful Merchant-Ivory period dramas, “The Painted Veil” effectively blends highbrow literary pretension with powerful cinematic drama — an evocative, passionate romantic triangle set ...

Released by Warner Independent Pictures and produced by the Yari Film Group comes The Painted Veil starring Naomi Watts, Edward Norton, Liev Schreiber, and Toby Jones. Directed by John Curran, The ...

The turmoil of two mismatched lovers is set against the backdrop of social unrest in the latest cinematic adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham’s classic novel The Painted Veil. The couple, Walter (Edward ...