Torturous love stories about foreigners in exotic lands have a history of being popular among kudos voters. Prior picture winners such as “Out of Africa” and “The English Patient” saw multiple ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Naomi Watts supplies the grit and soul in this adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham’s novel. A stifled London flapper in the 1920s, she marries a bacteriologist for convenience and follows her stolid ...

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“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 ...