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Published: 26 April 2007

Ex-pats in 1920s passion

THE PAINTED VEIL
Directed by John Curran
Certificate 12a

BASED on the celebrated Somerset Maugham novel of passion and infidelity among the British ex-pats in 1920s China, The Painted Veil is a splendid adaptation with jewel-in-the-crown acting from a starry cast.
Edward Norton (above) plays a bacteriologist who discovers his wife Kitty (Naomi Watts) is having an affair with his friend, the British vice-consul (Live Schreiber), and promptly hauls her off into the jungle to accompany him while he investigates a cholera outbreak.
Sundry characters emerge, headed by the marvellous Toby Jones – last seen in his triumphant role as Truman Capote in Infamous – and by Diana Rigg, in the unlikely role of the Mother Superior of a local orphanage, confessing her religious doubts to Kitty.
Norton, riding high on a current wave of strong parts, excels yet again.

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