If you like a good melodrama, and there’s certainly been plenty of it going on recently, then head down to the Ventnor Winter Gardens tomorrow night.
The Ventnor Film Society will be screening The Painted Veil, a film based on the 1925 novel by W Somerset Maugham.
“Love is lost and reclaimed in rural China, as the country endures a cholera epidemic and nationalist rumblings.
It’s the stuff of classic melodrama, but Edward Norton and Naomi Watts breathe fresh air into this ultimately uplifting story.
Norton is especially good, finding humanity in a stern scientist who inflicts a cruel and unusual punishment on his cheating wife, by hauling her to an isolated village ravaged by deadly disease.”
Venue: Ventnor Winter Gardens
Curtains up: at 7.30pm
Tickets: £4.50 (£3.50 conc) or buy a season pass for all seven films for £26.25 (£17.50)
China/USA 2006 125mins Cert: 12
Dir: John Curran
Cast: Naomi Watts, Edward Norton, Diana Rigg
If you can’t make it down tomorrow night, you can always hire it from the library as they now have a copy.
