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The painted veil [videorecording (DVD)] / WIP ; Stratus Film Co. ; Bob Yari Productions ; Class 5 Films ; Colleton Company ; Emotion Pictures ; The Mark Gordon Company ; Warner China Film HG Corporation ; produced by Sara Colleton, Jean Francois Fonlupt, Mark Gill, Sanping Han, Edward Norton ; screenplay by Ron Nyswaner ; directed by John Curran.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: 58557 | Warner Home VideoLanguage: English Summary language: English, French, Spanish Original language: English Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2007]Edition: Widescreen edDescription: 1 videodisc (125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN:
  • 1419818198
  • 9781419818196
Uniform titles:
  • Painted veil (Motion picture : 2006)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.43/72 22
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.M45 P356843 2007
Production credits:
  • Director of photography, Stuart Dryburgh ; art director, Peta Lawson ; editor, Alexandre de Franceschi ; music, Alexandre Desplat ; costume designer, Ruth Myers ; visual effects supervisor, Paul Butterworth.
  • Golden Globes (USA), 2007: Best Original Score - Motion Picture (Alexandre Desplat).
Cast: Naomi Watts, Edward Norton, Liev Schreiber, Toby Jones, Diana Rigg, Juliet Howland, Anthony Wong Chau-Sang, Maggie Steed, Lorraine Laurence, Johnny Lee, Li Feng.Summary: Set in the 1920s. A young English couple, Walter a middle class doctor and Kitty, an upper-class woman, get married for all the wrong reasons and relocate to Shanghai. Kitty falls in love with someone else. When Walter discovers her infidelity, in an act of vengeance, he accepts a job in a remote village in China that is being ravaged by a deadly epidemic. He takes his wife along and 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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Based on the novel by W. Somerset Maugham.

Originally released as a motion picture in 2006.

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Director of photography, Stuart Dryburgh ; art director, Peta Lawson ; editor, Alexandre de Franceschi ; music, Alexandre Desplat ; costume designer, Ruth Myers ; visual effects supervisor, Paul Butterworth.

Naomi Watts, Edward Norton, Liev Schreiber, Toby Jones, Diana Rigg, Juliet Howland, Anthony Wong Chau-Sang, Maggie Steed, Lorraine Laurence, Johnny Lee, Li Feng.

Set in the 1920s. A young English couple, Walter a middle class doctor and Kitty, an upper-class woman, get married for all the wrong reasons and relocate to Shanghai. Kitty falls in love with someone else. When Walter discovers her infidelity, in an act of vengeance, he accepts a job in a remote village in China that is being ravaged by a deadly epidemic. He takes his wife along and their journey brings meaning to their relationship and gives them purpose in one of the most remote and beautiful places on earth.

MPAA rating: PG-13; for mature sexual situations, partial nudity, disturbing images and brief drug content.

DVD, region 1, widescreen (2.40:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, DVD-9, dual-layer.

Dialogue in English with optional subtitles in English, French or Spanish; closed-captioned.

Golden Globes (USA), 2007: Best Original Score - Motion Picture (Alexandre Desplat).

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