The Painted Veil (2006)
Directed by John Curran
A British medical doctor fights a cholera outbreak in a small Chinese village, while also being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife.
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She did great, understated work opposite Edward Norton in the romantic period-piece The Painted Veil, and Viggo Mortensen in 2007’s stellar David Cronenberg underworld drama Eastern Promises.
He was nominated for his first film, Primal Fear (1996) and American History X, (1998).
He was nominated for his first film, Primal Fear (1996) and American History X, (1998).
What the characters will do with this very British cycle of repression, release, and heroic self-denial is rendered in the script, by Ron Nyswaner ( Philadelphia , The Painted Veil ), in sometimes delicate but more often jarringly unsubtle ways.
It’s all quite sensitively and credibly handled by the deft cast, director (and acclaimed stage veteran) Michael Grandage and screenwriter Ron Nyswaner (“Philadelphia,” “The Painted Veil”).