Cebalord Very best movie i ever watch

Listonixio Fresh and Exciting

Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

tmlhash I love this movie. It is one of my favorite movies I will get no tired watching it again and again. I have hated and fallen in love with Walter Fane, same as Kitty did. Edward Norton played that character simply perfect. Each simple detail on the way he moved, walked, watched, breathed added the right value/element to the character and transmitted plenty of emotions. Naomi Watts!!! Oh another excellent actor to this movie. I hated the frivolous Kitty at first, but than I hated Walter for "making it pay" to well matured Kitty later. Excellent movie in every single detail.

scorpiowriter Watched this last night on Netflix. At first, was annoyed by Naomi Watt's heavy Australian accent bleeding through her British character's, along with Ed Norton's very weak accent.Once they went to China, everything changed. The scenery (filmed in Guilin, Guangxiprovince) is MAGNIFICENT. Interesting to watch the characters go fromloathing one another to a sort of reunion. Definitely worth a watch.Love the scenery, costumes, music, and melancholy lighting. Would haveliked to see more of Waddington.Jeez, I have to add more lines to my review. Most people have the attention span of a goldfish, IMDb! What else is there to say...wish I saw more from the Chinese character's points of view, so they weren't just stereotypes , i.e. Chinese Peasant #1. Would have liked to known more about the experiences of the French nuns--what gives them pleasure? How about seeing the local foods? There was a humorous scene where Dr. Fane meets up with a Chinese warlord--reminded me of the Supreme Leader of North Korea. Good movie, definitely if you can get though the dreary English scenes--where I wish more character development had occurred--you will love it. And Lieve Schreiber makes an excellent DOUCHEBAG character!

beresfordjd We found a DVD in our holiday apartment and decided to watch it one evening. Edward Norton , Naomi Watts and Toby Jones are just marvellous in this period piece. It is set in China and is exquisitely shot bringing to life the landscape as we see in old prints and the like. It is delightful and harrowing by turns and it makes the viewer become involved in the main characters lives in a way that few films manage. It is a film about a passionate love, infidelity, forgiveness and reconciliation set against a virulent cholera epidemic. The premise does not sound promising but The Painted Veil delivers on all fronts. Highly recommended.

SnoopyStyle It's 1925 China. Kitty (Naomi Watts) and her dull husband Dr. Walter Fane (Edward Norton) are traveling into the interiors for him to study infectious diseases. In flashbacks, their marital troubles are revealed. Kitty found him lackluster at first but her mother threatened to cut her off. In China, she had an affair with the dashing married diplomat Charlie Townsend (Liev Schreiber). She wanted a divorce and run off with Charlie but Charlie won't get a divorce himself. The question is if the couple can reconnect in the Chinese wilderness in revolutionary times. The only neighbors are the Deputy Commissioner Waddington (Toby Jones) and his Chinese woman. A guard is assigned to her as foreigners face threats.This is not the sappy romance as one would expect. It is darker than at first glanced. Walter doesn't start in the best light and neither does Kitty. Their reconciliation is something slowly earned. The major drawback is that the couple needs more time together and the movie is a bit too long. Cholera is not necessarily the most sexy thing and she has no good way to get into that part of the story.