THE MOVIE
Based on the novel by W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil is a love story set in the 1920s that tells the story of a young English couple, Walter (Edward Norton), a middle class doctor and Kitty (Naomi Watts), an upper-class woman, who get married for the wrong reasons and relocate to Shanghai, where she falls in love with someone else. When he uncovers her infidelity, in an act of vengeance, he accepts a job in a remote village in China ravaged by a deadly epidemic, and takes her along. Their journey brings meaning to their relationship and gives them purpose in one of the most remote and beautiful places on earth.

THE CAST
Ed Norton...Walter Fane
Naomi Watts...Kitty Fane
Charlie Townsend...Liev Schreiber
Toby Jones...Waddington

QUOTES

Kitty: Do you absolutely despise me?
Walter: No. I despise myself.
Kitty: Why?
Walter: For allowing myself to love you once.

Kitty: Please, Mother. The idea that any women should mary any Tom, Dick or Harry regardless of her own feelings is simply prehistoric.

Kitty: [about Wan Xi] I had no idea you had so much affection for her.
Waddington: What makes you think I do?
Kitty: I can see it in your eyes. I wonder what she sees in you.
Waddington: What do you see in me?
Wan Xi: You're a good man.
Waddington: She says I'm a good man.
Kitty: As if a women has ever loved a man for his virtue.

Walter: I knew when I married you that you were selfish and spoiled, but I loved you.
Kitty: I married you even though I didn't love you, but you knew that. Aren't you as much to blamed for what has happened as I?

Charlie: Women are always under the impression that men love them more that they really do.
Kitty: I wouldn't delude myself for a second that you were in love with me.
Charlie: Now there you're wrong.

Walter: I suppose I'm not used to speaking unless I've something to say.
Kitty: If people only spoke when they had something to say, the human race would soon lose the power of speech.