The painted veil - Naomi Watts, Edward Norton, Liev Schreiber, John Curran
Threat advisory: Elevated - Significant risk of entertaining activities
Movie propaganda
Sometimes the greatest journey is the distance between two people.
Based on the novel by W Somerset Maugham, The painted veil is a love story set in the 1920s about a young English couple, Walter (Edward Norton), a middle class doctor and Kitty (Naomi Watts), an upper-class woman, who marry for the wrong reasons and relocate to Shanghai, where Kitty falls in love with someone else. When Walter uncovers her infidelity, in an act of vengeance he accepts a job in a remote village in China ravaged by a deadly epidemic, and takes her along. Their journey brings meaning to their relationship and gives them purpose in one of the most remote and beautiful places on earth.
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Target demographic movie keyword propaganda
- Film adventure drama romance China Shanghai Twenties cholera adultery
Persons of interest
- Bin Li .... Te-Ming
- Alan David .... Mr Garstin
- Marie-Laure Descoureaux .... Sister St Joseph
- Sally Hawkins .... Mary
- Juliet Howland .... Dorothy Townsend
- Toby Jones .... Waddington
- Lorraine Laurence .... Sister Maryse
- Li Feng .... Sung Ching
- Gesang Meiduo .... Amah
- Edward Norton .... Walter Fane
- Ian Rennick .... Geoffrey Denison
- Diana Rigg .... Mother Superior
- Liev Schreiber .... Charlie Townsend
- Cheng Shihan .... Warlord Kwei
- Maggie Steed .... Mrs Garstin
- Henry Sylow .... Walter Junior
- Zoe Telford .... Leona
- Lucy Voller .... Doris Garstin
- Naomi Watts .... Kitty Fane
- Anthony Wong Chau-Sang .... Colonel Yu
- Yan Lu .... Wan Xi
- Yu Xia .... Wu Lien
- W Somerset Maugham .... Author
- Ron Nyswaner .... Screenwriter
- John Curran .... Director
Cinematic intelligence sources
Intelligence analyst
Special Agent Matti
Theatrical report
The painted veil is a historical drama about the decline of the British Empire, marriage for all the wrong reasons, love and getting sick and dying. There are doctors, wives, adulterers, do-gooders and lots of sex. It's very romantic and full of exotic times and places and many costume changes.
The adventure, drama, romance movie The painted veil is directed by John Curran and stars Naomi Watts, Edward Norton, Liev Schreiber.
Government security censorship classification
M (Moderate themes and sexual references)
Surveillance time
123 minutes (2:03 hours)
Not for public release in Australia before date
Film: 24 April 2008
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