Review – The Painted Veil (2006)

At least this is better than The Razor’s Edge. Or at least I assume it is. I confess I haven’t read the source novel for this one. Still, this seems a bit more Maugham-y than the Bill Murray thing. Ed Norton plays an angry man who drags his unfaithful wife (Naomi Watts) into the middle of a cholera epidemic in rural China in the 1920s. The story is romantic enough, if a bit on the dull side. The real star of the show, however, is the cinematography. The countryside provides no end of beautiful vistas. The result is a pretty if not particularly interesting picture. Mildly amusing