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The Painted Veil (2006)

★ 7.3 · 1,261 ratings on TMDB

Sometimes the greatest journey is the distance between two people.

The Painted Veil poster★ 7.3

A British medical doctor fights a cholera outbreak in a small Chinese village, while also being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife.

DirectorJohn Curran
CastAnthony Wong Chau-Sang, Diana Rigg, Edward Norton, Ian Renwick, Juliet Howland, Li Bin
GenresDrama, Romance
The emergence reading

The Painted Veil keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E4 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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