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The Painted Veil (2006)
Runtime: 2 hrs 5 mins
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Naomi Watts, Edward Norton, Liev Schreiber, Diana Rigg, Yu Xia
DVD Info
Release:
Aug 5, 2007
DVD Features:
- Widescreen - 2.40
- Single Side - Dual Layer
Audio:
- Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround - English, French
- Subtitles - English, French, Spanish
- Subtitles - English - Closed Captioned
Reviews
John Curran controls the redemptive spirit of Maugham's book with merciful restraint, and gets excellent performances all round.
Stunning scenery and superior thesping result in a period romance that combines the intimate with the epic.
The problem isn't that it's painful to endure, but that it's a rather easier watch than it should be.
Combine a strong-limbed narrative about marital frustration with a painstaking account of the British imperial presence in 1920s China.
Overall this is a satisfyingly slow-burning romance, beautifully scored and acted.
The production values are characteristically sumptuous, William Daniels' photography is lustrous, and Boleslawski directs with suitable flair.
Handsomely crafted, with meticulous performances, yet it plays out drily and in monotone.
Superb performances and elegant production values make it profoundly involving.
Concealed passions are revealed as life takes unexpected turns and what initially seems like an act of vengeance becomes the making of the central characters
The Painted Veil has a real pulse. It sweeps you up in the characters' journey from the beginning, and keeps you riveted from moment to moment.
...a finely crafted product that can hardly fail to touch one's heart.
The Painted Veil is the type of old-fashioned period drama with rich, well defined characters that usually can’t find backing in today’s Hollywood.
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