Luís's Reviews > O Véu Pintado

The film "The Painted Veil", taken from the novel, was a dazzling one, and to prolong the magic, I threw myself into the story from the last frame. At this point, conquered by the film, the quality of the images, the beauty of the landscapes, and the interpretation of a rare sensitivity by Naomi Watts and Edward Norton (Ah, this unforgettable scene where the disunited couple finally meet again and find their way back to life. matrimonial bed), not to mention the exceptional music of Alexandre Desplat. In short, I had set the bar very high for the novel, and I did not hide a slight, minimal disappointment.
But the novel brings another dimension to the state of mind of the two heroes. And even if the third, namely the lover (beautiful interpretation of Liev Schreiber), the bottom of their nature, and all the elements that very gradually, in this hostile context, will bring them to understand each other, finally, talk to each other, and find each other.