THE PAINTED VEIL (HBO on Comcast ) Adapted from a Somerset Maugham novel comes this story of a shallow Englishwoman (Naomi Watts), her indifferent marriage to an accommodating bacteriologist (Edward Norton, above with Watts), and their expatriate life in Hong Kong and the cholera-ravaged villages of mainland China during the Revolution. The movie is elegant to a fault - so ... (Full article: 213 words)
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