The painted veil

Resource Information

The work The painted veil represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Milton Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

The painted veil

Statement of responsibility

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

• Feng, Li
• Fonlupt, Jean Francois
• Gill, Mark
• Han, Sanping
• Howland, Juliet
• Jones, Toby
• Laurence, Lorraine
• Lee, Johnny
• Maugham, W. Somerset, (William Somerset), 1874-1965
• Norton, Edward
• Nyswaner, Ron
• Rigg, Diana
• Schreiber, Liev
• Steed, Maggie
• Watts, Naomi, 1968-
• Wong, Anthony
• Bob Yari Productions
• Class 5 Films (Firm)
• Colleton Company
• Emotion Pictures (Firm)
• Mark Gordon Company
• Stratus Film Co
• WIP (Firm)
• Warner China Film HG Corporation
• Warner Home Video (Firm)
• Colleton, Sara
• Curran, John
• Desplat, Alexandre

Subject

• Epidemics -- China -- Fiction
• Feature films
• Married people -- China | Shanghai -- Fiction
• Maugham, W. Somerset, (William Somerset), 1874-1965. -- Film and video adaptations
• Physicians -- England -- Fiction
• Shanghai (China) -- Fiction
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Adultery -- China | Shanghai -- Fiction
• China -- Fiction
• Cities and towns -- China -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction
• Film and video adaptations

Language

• eng
• eng
• fre
• spa
• eng
• eng

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

Member of

• Painted veil (Motion picture : 2006)

Awards note

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

Cataloging source

lbi

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

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

Dewey number

791.43/72

Intended audience

Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A

Language note

• In English with subtitles in English, French or Spanish
• Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired

PerformerNote

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

Runtime

125

Target audience

general

Technique

live action