"Love and passion have important roles to play in forging a person's destiny and moral consciousness. No kidding. We all know this. Moreover, we're all interested in this. The hottest gossip is not about money or politics, but love and sex, and once upon a time movies knew this, too: The movie romance used to be Hollywood's most familiar product.
Today it's a rarity. We have romantic comedies, but in the course of any given year, there are very few (just two or three) serious romantic dramas. It's probably not without significance that the year's best, "The Painted Veil," based on the W. Somerset Maugham novel, is set in the past -- romances lose impact in eras in which sex is of incidental importance. In any case, "The Painted Veil" does what a romantic drama needs to do. It testifies to love as the great educator."
- SF Chronicle: Mick LaSalle
Today it's a rarity. We have romantic comedies, but in the course of any given year, there are very few (just two or three) serious romantic dramas. It's probably not without significance that the year's best, "The Painted Veil," based on the W. Somerset Maugham novel, is set in the past -- romances lose impact in eras in which sex is of incidental importance. In any case, "The Painted Veil" does what a romantic drama needs to do. It testifies to love as the great educator."
- SF Chronicle: Mick LaSalle
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Yeah gotta see this.
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I love it! I forgot all about this movie, then the other night Mike found this on some Channel. I thought, I gotta tell Elena about this... =))))
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