THE PAINTED VEIL

This offering by Ed Norton and Naomi Books is based on a book, a book I have on the shelf, but I haven't read it. The trailer looked promising and the film didn't disappoint. The love story that happens after marriage is a different take from other current romantic drama releases and the mix of period and foreign land makes this a beautiful film to watch and you come to care about the characters. They don't start off that great, and unfortunately that's the only low point of the film, no matter how bad Walter and Kitty are, you don't hate them. You don't go feeling from one extreme to the other.
The chemistry does seem to be there as the two characters slowly begin to get reacquainted, asking us too to reponder about our own relationships with people, what new things we can learn about them, what didn't we know about them before and how our new knowledge and understanding can change us. And ultimately, it is understanding that we can forgive everything and that some things really don't matter so long as we believe in it.