Sunday Schmooze with Fred Craden
THE PAINTED VEIL
Starring Edward Norton, Naomi Watts, and Liev Schreiber
Sunday, November 5, Bagels 10am Film 11am
$11 Members | $16 Public
Based on the classic novel by W. Somerset Maugham, a powerful drama about an unfaithful English couple who find an unexpected chance at redemption while on a deadly journey into the heart of 1920s China to fight a Cholera epidemic.
Based on the 1925 novel of the same name. Caught in an affair with another man (Liev Schreiber), a scientist's callow wife (Naomi Watts) accompanies her husband (Edward Norton) to mainland China in the 1920s to fight a cholera epidemic. There, she embarks on a journey of self-discovery that leads to an unexpected chance at redemption. (USA/China/Canada/Belgium, 2006, 125 min., PG-13, English/French/Chinese | Dir. John Curran)