The painted veil, Warner Independent Pictures ; Bob Yari Productions and The Mark Gordon Company present a Colleton Company ; Emotion Pictures ; Class 5 Films production a Warner China Film HG Corporation ; directed by John Curran; screenplay by Ron Nyswaner; produced by Edward Norton, Naomi Watts,Sara Colleton, Jean-Francis Fonlupt, and Bob Yari
Type
Label
The painted veil, Warner Independent Pictures ; Bob Yari Productions and The Mark Gordon Company present a Colleton Company ; Emotion Pictures ; Class 5 Films production a Warner China Film HG Corporation ; directed by John Curran; screenplay by Ron Nyswaner; produced by Edward Norton, Naomi Watts,Sara Colleton, Jean-Francis Fonlupt, and Bob Yari
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Intended audience
Rated PG13 ; some mature sexual situations, partial nudity, disturbing images and brief drug content
Main title
The painted veil
Medium
videorecording DVD
Responsibility statement
Warner Independent Pictures ; Bob Yari Productions and The Mark Gordon Company present a Colleton Company ; Emotion Pictures ; Class 5 Films production a Warner China Film HG Corporation ; directed by John Curran; screenplay by Ron Nyswaner; produced by Edward Norton, Naomi Watts,Sara Colleton, Jean-Francis Fonlupt, and Bob Yari
Runtime
125
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
Target audience
adult
Technique
live action
Contributor
- Norton, Edward
- Gordon, Mark, 1956-
- Yari, Rob
- Schreiber, Liev
- Curran, John
- Katz, Robert A
- Lewis, Ellen
- Nyswaner, Ron
- Maugham, W. Somerset, William Somerset, 1874-1965
- Watts, Naomi, 1968-
- Myers, Ruth
- Warner Home Video (Firm)
- Warner Independent Pictures
- Colleton, Sara
- Rigg, Diana
- Dryburgh, Stuart
- Desplat, Alexandre
- Fonlupt, Jean-Francois
- De Franceschi, Alexandre
- Juhua, Tu
- Golchan, Yasmine
- Jones, Toby, 1966-
- Barnard, Antonia
Subject
- DVD-Video discs
- Married people -- Drama
- Cities and towns -- China -- Drama
- Cholera -- Drama
- Epidemics -- China -- Drama
- China -- Drama
- Man-woman relationships -- Drama
- British -- China -- Drama
- Married people -- China -- Shanghai -- Drama
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Adultery -- China -- Shanghai -- Drama
- Feature films
- Interpersonal relations -- Drama
- Shanghai (China) -- Drama
- Medical drama
- Physicians -- England
Content
Incoming Resources
- Has instance1
Outgoing Resources
- Contributor23
- Norton, Edward
- Gordon, Mark, 1956-
- Yari, Rob
- Schreiber, Liev
- Curran, John
- Katz, Robert A
- Lewis, Ellen
- Nyswaner, Ron
- Maugham, W. Somerset, William Somerset, 1874-1965
- Watts, Naomi, 1968-
- Myers, Ruth
- Warner Home Video (Firm)
- Warner Independent Pictures
- Colleton, Sara
- Rigg, Diana
- Dryburgh, Stuart
- Desplat, Alexandre
- Fonlupt, Jean-Francois
- De Franceschi, Alexandre
- Juhua, Tu
- Golchan, Yasmine
- Jones, Toby, 1966-
- Barnard, Antonia
- Genre4
- Subject16
- DVD-Video discs
- Married people -- Drama
- Cities and towns -- China -- Drama
- Cholera -- Drama
- Epidemics -- China -- Drama
- China -- Drama
- Man-woman relationships -- Drama
- British -- China -- Drama
- Married people -- China -- Shanghai -- Drama
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Adultery -- China -- Shanghai -- Drama
- Feature films
- Interpersonal relations -- Drama
- Shanghai (China) -- Drama
- Medical drama
- Physicians -- England
- Content1