DVD
The painted veil [videorecording] / 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.
Record details
- ISBN: 1419818198
- ISBN: 9781419818196
- Physical Description: 1 videodisc (125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
- Publisher: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2007]
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Title from container. Based on the novel by W. Somerset Maugham. Originally released as a motion picture in 2006. |
| Creation/Production 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. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Naomi Watts, Edward Norton, Liev Schreiber, Toby Jones, Diana Rigg, Juliet Howland, Anthony Wong Chau-Sang, Maggie Steed, Lorraine Laurence, Johnny Lee, Li Feng. |
| Summary, etc.: | 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. |
| Target Audience Note: | MPAA rating: PG-13; for mature sexual situations, partial nudity, disturbing images and brief drug content. |
| System Details Note: | DVD, region 1, widescreen (2.40:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, DVD-9, dual-layer. |
| Language Note: | English dialogue, English, French or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned. |
| Awards Note: | Golden Globes (USA), 2007: Best Original Score - Motion Picture (Alexandre Desplat). |
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| Subject: | Physicians > England > Drama. Married people > China > Shanghai > Drama. Adultery > China > Shanghai > Drama. Cities and towns > China > Drama. Epidemics > China > Drama. M > Inglaterra > Teatro. Adulterio > China > Shanghai > Teatro. Physicians > England > Drama. Married people > China > Shanghai > Drama. Adultery > China > Shanghai > Drama. Cities and towns > China > Drama. Epidemics > China > Drama. Shanghai (China) > Drama. China > Drama. Shanghai (China) > Drama. China > Drama. |
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