The China of the past is what feature film director John Curran was seeking when he scouted locations for The Painted Veil, which opens next week. It's based on the Somerset Maugham book set in China ...
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 ...
“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 ...