Great supplemental information for school essays and projects. There, amid death and misery, kitty sees in a convent of french nuns great. The ending is a bit of a let down the 2006 movie adaptation starring. Turner classic movies presents the greatest motion pictures of all time from one of the largest film libraries in the world. This is the third film adaptation of the maugham book. And also, how kitty went back and slept with charles again. Somerset maugham novel and the painted veil, first. The painted veil is a 1925 novel by british author w. And on the final page of the novel she gives a heartfelt expression that the new life shes bringing. Study questions, project ideas and discussion topics based on important themes running throughout the painted veil by w.
I try to write about films within 48 hours of viewing them, but with one thing and another, it took me almost a week to get around to the painted veil, and this i think is a good thing, because immediately after viewing it, i was under the distinct impression that it was a great deal more interesting than is actually the case. I admired the potraiture of people as people complex. The novel also inspired a 2006 drama movie of the same name starring edward norton and naomi watts. Ending spoiler for the painted veil 2006, plus mistakes, quotes, trivia and more. She is conducting an affair with charles townsend, the assistant colonial secretary, and the two are in her room when the knobs to her door mysteriously turn from the outside. Somerset maughams 1925 novel the painted veil, previously filmed rather beautifully in 1934 starring greta garbo and indifferently in 1957 as the seventh sin, is the tale of kitty naomi watts. The painted veil is the story of kitty fane, a beautiful, but thoughtless, shallow, and selfcentered woman. The question and answer section for the painted veil is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel. Kitty fane is a beautiful, vain, upperclass british woman unhappily married to walter fane, a bacteriologist working in hong kong. Find video, photos, forums, blogs and shop for some of. The screenplay by ron nyswaner is based on the 1925 novel of the same title by w. Walter fane, a bacteriologist living in china who falls madly in love with her. The storyline of the painted veil has some major changes between the movie and the novel.
Somerset maugham andits about a young english couple, played by edward norton and naomi watts, whomove to. Edward norton, naomi watts, toby jones, anthony wong chau sang and liev schreiber appear in the leading roles. When her younger sister announces her own engagement to a prosperous duke, kitty panics and accepts the proposal of the very quiet, very shy, dr. Maugham uses a thirdpersonlimited point of view in this story, where kitty garstin is the focal character. The painted veil is a novel written by w somerset maugham in 1925. Naomi watts and john curran interviewed the painted veil. Somerset maughams the painted veil is easily the best book ive. They praise walter to the skies and hope she is taking good care of him. I didnt like how, in the book, walter and kitty never ended up falling in love. It is a story of love, betrayal, hatred, revenge and redemption. The painted veil has the ingredients of a great film, including cinematography alternatively lush and parched and highcaliber actors. The ending too is completely different and much more likely. This is a love story set in the 1920s that tells the story of a young english couple, walter fane edward norton, a middle class doctor and kitty naomi watts, an upperclass woman, who get married for the wrong reasons and relocate to shanghai, where she falls in love with someone else.