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The Painted Veil
MEANRANK
74/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1592
- IMDb #1276
- Google retired #845
- Rotten Tomatoes #1668
- Metacritic #1302
- Letterboxd #1803
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2476
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1108
- Metacritic Critics #1544
- Metacritic Audience #958
- Kinopoisk #395
- AlloCiné #1579
- Trakt #1636
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Lowest is Criticker on 44, highest is Google on 92.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A young English doctor, cheated on by his frivolous wife, volunteers to combat a deadly cholera epidemic in a remote Chinese village as an act of bitter punishment. Forced into close quarters in a hostile and dying community, the estranged couple must confront their own failings and resentment. Amidst the backdrop of overwhelming suffering and death, they begin a difficult and gradual journey toward understanding and possible redemption.
Details
- Director
- John Curran
- Writer
- Ron Nyswaner
- Based on
- The Painted Veil by William Somerset Maugham
- Studio
- Emotion Pictures, The Mark Gordon Company, Class 5 Films, Warner China Film HG Corporation 中影华纳横店
- Released
- 9 December 2006
- Country
- Canada, United States, China, Hong Kong
- Language
- English, Mandarin, French
- Runtime
- 125 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $19.4M
- Box office
- $26.9M
- Awards
- 1 win, 0 nominations
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| National Board of Review: Top Ten Films 2006 | National Board of Review: Top Ten Films | Winner |
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