Edward Norton and Naomi Watts are surprising in each new role that they take on. The two bring a few surprises with their newest movie "The Painted Veil." Edward Norton and Naomi Watts are surprising ...

Given what an awful stiff Somerset Maugham can be, it’s remarkable how many movies have been made of his uptight tales of civil servants sweating it out in British colonies (48 for the big screen ...

“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 ...

For all of Zhang Yimou’s well-earned accolades, a debate simmers among many in the Chinese film elite over the proper perspective to be given the acclaimed director. Central to the so-called Fifth ...

What It Is: A made-in-China version of the W. Somerset Maugham novel about a distant doc, his lovely wife and his fight against cholera. Now Playing: In New York and Los Angeles, with more cities to ...

Romantic dramas about strangers in strange lands have resonated with Academy voters in the past and could do so once again this year with "The Painted Veil." MARTIN GROVE talks with screenwriter Ron ...

“The problems of two people don’t amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.” So the movies have told us and so it is in The Painted Veil, a third screen adaptation of the Somerset Maugham novel ...

“The Painted Veil” is a love story set in the 1920s based on the classic novel by W. Somerset Maugham. It tells the story of a young English couple (a middle class doctor and an upper-class woman) who ...

Naomi Watts and Edward Norton in "The Painted Veil", 2006.Mary Evans—Warner China Film HG / Everett Collection Husbands and wives are often jerks to each other; it has always been so. In this 2006 ...

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