"It’s no surprise that one of the best scenes in the latest and third film iteration of W. Somerset Maugham’s novel 'The Painted Veil' doesn’t happen in the book. It’s the 1920s, and as China seethes with revolutionary unrest and cholera, an unhappily married British couple, played by Naomi Watts and Edward Norton, drift into a new state of coexistence, carried aloft on opium smoke and their newly liberated desire. ... First published in 1925, 'The Painted Veil' recounts the moral awakening of a vain, careless young woman, Kitty (Ms. Watts), who has been raised for a life of abject uselessness. Thrown into a panic after her younger sister marries, and encouraged by her revolting mother, Kitty hastily marries a bacteriologist, Walter Fane (Mr. Norton) and moves with him to Shanghai. ..."
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