A tale of love and disappointment set against the backdrop of a cholera epidemic in 1920s rural China, The Painted Veil follows the travails of a young English couple who marry too soon, and for all ...

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 ...

The movies can't get enough of W. Somerset Maugham. According to a posthumous tribute to him at the 2004 Telluride Film Festival, he is "cinema's most popular author of the 20th century ... with ...

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 ...

The China of the past is what feature film director John Curran was seeking when he scouted locations for The Painted Veil, which opens next week. It's based on the Somerset Maugham book set in China ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Set against the backdrop of a horrible epidemic, "The Painted Veil" still manages to tell a beautiful and complex love story, ...

John Curran will direct Edward Norton in period drama “The Painted Veil” for Warner Independent Pictures and Stratus Film Co., with Naomi Watts in negotiations to star. WIP will take North American ...