Just viewed “The Painted Veil” … the 2007 version with Ed Norton and Naomi Watts, not the 1934 version with Greta Garbo. I generally do not gravitate toward ‘period’ movies or classic literature screenplays, so I don’t know what led me to add this to my Netflix queue… unless it was Naomi’s creamy deliciousness. Suffice it to say, I feel guilty for my possibly low-brow motivations because the movie was truly spectacular. Spectacularly provocative visually, and spiritually. Of course, if I wasn’t such a simple Cretan I would have already been familiar with the novel by Somerset Maugham. I generally find Eddy’s portfolio to be smug but he and the rest of the cast do a swell job as well. Highly recommended.
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