The painted veil [DVD] / directed by John Curran
Material type: FilmPublication details: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, c2007Description: 1 videodisc [DVD] (125 min.) : sd., col. ; 12cmISBN:- 1419818198
- 9781419818196
- DVD 996A
- 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 ; piano soloist, Lang Lang
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3 Day Loan | LSAD Library DVD collection | DVD 996A (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 39002100673400 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
After he learns his wife is having an affair, a young doctor accepts a job in a remote Chinese village where the people are suffering from a deadly disease.
Based on the novel by W. Somerset Maugham
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 ; piano soloist, Lang Lang
Naomi Watts, Edward Norton, Liev Schreiber, Toby Jones, Diana Rigg, Juliet Howland, Anthony Wong Chau-Sang, Maggie Steed, Lorraine Laurence, Johnny Lee, Li Feng
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
MPAA rating: PG-13; for mature sexual situations, partial nudity, disturbing images and brief drug content
Closed-captioned; dialogue in English (Dolby Digital 5.1 surround) with optional subtitles in English, French or Spanish