“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 ...

Intelligent scripting, solid thesping and eye-catching location shooting aren't enough to make a compelling modern film of "The Painted Veil," W. Somerset Maugham's yarn about Brits run amok in 1920s ...

"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 ...

In many ways, “The Painted Veil” is an old-fashioned movie, taking a W. Somerset Maugham novel and turning it into a beautiful-looking, sometimes melodramatic film that, at its core, is the story of a ...

A lush period piece based on the novel of the same name by W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil is highlighted by stalwart performances from Edward Norton and Naomi Watts and a quietly melancholic ...

Learn about The Painted Veil - Music Composed and Conducted by ALEXANDRE DESPLAT Featuring World-Renowned Piano Virtuoso LANG LANG Prodigiously gifted (Gramophone) pianist Lang Lang is featured in ...