The Painted Veil (2006)

PG-1312/09/2006Romance, Drama2h 5m
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Sometimes the greatest journey is the distance between two people.

Overview

A British medical doctor fights a cholera outbreak in a small Chinese village, while also being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Edward Norton

    Dr. Walter Fane

  2. Cast 1

    Naomi Watts

    Kitty Fane

  3. Cast 1

    Liev Schreiber

    Charlie Townsend

  4. Cast 1

    Toby Jones

    Mr. Waddington

  5. Cast 1

    Diana Rigg

    Mother Superior

  6. Cast 1

    Anthony Wong

    Colonel Yu

  7. Cast 1

    Xia Yu

    Wu Lien

  8. Cast 1

    Juliet Howland

    Dorothy Townsend

  9. Ian Renwick

    Geoffrey Denison

This movie seemed vaguely familiar to my wife like we had seen it before, but it all seemed new to me when we recently watched it. We both enjoyed it. I wasn’t concerned when a few reviews remarked that it moved slowly, as we have always appreciated movies that build a quiet story carefully, and mostly this one did that. My only criticism is that at the outset of the movie, I didn’t quite believe that Walter was in love with Kitty. He said he was, but I wonder if a scene or two showing him falling for her ended up on the cutting room floor. He merely seemed to stalk her around the party and...