Naomi Watts and Edward Norton in "The Painted Veil", 2006.Mary Evans—Warner China Film HG / Everett Collection Husbands and wives are often jerks to each other; it has always been so. In this 2006 ...
In Austria, lonely after her sister's marriage Katrin agrees to marry her father's research associate Dr. Walter Fane. He takes her to China but constantly ignores her in favor of his medical research ...
The movies can't get enough of W. Somerset Maugham. According to a posthumous tribute to him at the 2004 Telluride Film Festival, he is "cinema's most popular author of the 20th century ... with ...
“The Painted Veil” is a love story set in the 1920s based on the classic novel by W. Somerset Maugham. It tells the story of a young English couple (a middle class doctor and an upper-class woman) who ...