*ing: Edward Norton, Naomi Watts
This movie came highly recommended from one of my very trusted friends and I knew this one gotta be good and it quite lived up to my expectations. Well ... I seriously think this movie should have been titled 'Love in the time of Cholera' ... albeit a similar titled movie was released a year later in 2007. I think I guess away what the movie plot is all about ... if you have not guessed it till now ... it's the movie of Edward Norton and Naomi Watts discovering love in their wedlock in the midst of fighting Cholera. Edward Norton is a bacteriologist (don't ask me, google it) and find himself in a remote Chinese village trying to learn more about a Cholera outbreak, his wife played by Naomi Watts is not really in love with Norton however the Cholera outbreak brings them closer to each other only to end their love story on a tragic note. What I really liked about the movie? Amazing cinematography, great music, good performances by Watts and Norton. Naomi looks stunning like always :) ... she kinda makes me go drooll!! ;-) My verdict? +vely a must watch for its an impressive story of love.
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0446755/
Rottentomatoes: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/painted_veil/
The movie kind of has an uncanny resemblence to our hindustani arranged marriage scenario, where love happens after marriage, but in its all hollywoodish avatar.
ReplyDeleteWhat “The Painted Veil” lacks in epic sweep, it makes up for in scores with its nuanced performances and subversive outlook on romance and true love. Its finely landscaped images of China are transfixing. Simply astounding cinematography.....no doubts there.