• Director: John Curran
  • Release Year: 2006
  • Production Country: China, United States, Canada
  • Language: English, Mandarin, French

The Painted Veil

Description

Forced to accompany her husband, Walter, when he travels to a remote Chinese village stricken by cholera, Kit's misery seems complete. When Kit volunteers to teach music where Walter works in a local orphanage, their marriage-of-convenience slowly develops into something more, but as the cholera epidemic rages, their mutual efforts may be too little, too late.

Themes

Republic of China (1912 – 1949), Cholera, Medicine, Childhood, Gender roles, Cross-cultural interactions, Family relationships, Literature, W. Somerset Maugham (1874 – 1965)