It's hard to put a finger on what precisely doesn't work about The Painted Veil, a lush, sumptuously appointed…
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Cast
Naomi Watts (Kitty Fane)Edward Norton (Walter Fane)Liev Schreiber (Charlie Townsend)Catherine An (Hostess)Bin Li (Te-Ming)Bin Wu (Student 1)Alan David (Mr. Garstin)Marie-Laure Descoureaux (Sister St. Joseph)Sally Hawkins (Mary)Juliet Howland (Dorothy Townsend)Toby Jones (Waddington)Lorraine Laurence (Sister Maryse)Gwing-Gai Lee (Angry Chinese Man)Li Feng (Sung Ching)Gesang Meiduo (Amah)Yin Qing (Student 2)Ian Renwick (Geoffrey Denison)Diana Rigg (Mother Superior)
Director
John Curran
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Synopsis
A British medical doctor fights a cholera epidemic in a small Chinese village, while being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife.
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