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”Does seem silly, really. To put all that effort into something that’s just going to die.”
It’s 1925 and Kitty Fane (Naomi Watts) doesn’t really want to be in China with her husband Walter (Ed Norton) but he is dedicated to his bacteriology research and must be there. He’s a doctor who manages a government laboratory in Shanghai.
Kitty’s parents greatly encouraged her marriage to Walter even though she wasn’t fond of him. “Your days are running out,” they said to her.
Once in Shanghai, Kitty shows herself to be quite uppity and dislikes socializing with the other English people living in the Far East. But it isn’t long before she’s having a passionate affair with the vice consul, Charlie Townsend (Liev Schreiber).
When Walter is called into the countryside to deal with a cholera outbreak, he demands that Kitty comes with him. Despite her protests, Walter blackmails her by telling her he knows of the affair and he will divorce her in a heartbeat unless she comes with him. But Walter will allow Kitty to quietly divorce him but only if Charlie divorces his wife and promises to marry the shallow Kitty. Charlie refuses. So Kitty must go with Walter.
Kitty is upset by the primitive living conditions, the fear of being infected, and the threat of being attacked by the Chinese nationalists. But in short order, she is willingly working with the orphans.
Can Walter and Kitty earn each others respect and love?
Also in the cast are Toby Jones as Waddington, the deputy commissioner; Diana Rigg as the Mother Superior of the orphanage.
Based on the novel by W. Somerset Maugham. Directed by John Curran.
Run time: 2 hour, 5 minute
Rated PG-13.
My personal rating: B+
It’s 1925 and Kitty Fane (Naomi Watts) doesn’t really want to be in China with her husband Walter (Ed Norton) but he is dedicated to his bacteriology research and must be there. He’s a doctor who manages a government laboratory in Shanghai.
Kitty’s parents greatly encouraged her marriage to Walter even though she wasn’t fond of him. “Your days are running out,” they said to her.
Once in Shanghai, Kitty shows herself to be quite uppity and dislikes socializing with the other English people living in the Far East. But it isn’t long before she’s having a passionate affair with the vice consul, Charlie Townsend (Liev Schreiber).
When Walter is called into the countryside to deal with a cholera outbreak, he demands that Kitty comes with him. Despite her protests, Walter blackmails her by telling her he knows of the affair and he will divorce her in a heartbeat unless she comes with him. But Walter will allow Kitty to quietly divorce him but only if Charlie divorces his wife and promises to marry the shallow Kitty. Charlie refuses. So Kitty must go with Walter.
Kitty is upset by the primitive living conditions, the fear of being infected, and the threat of being attacked by the Chinese nationalists. But in short order, she is willingly working with the orphans.
Can Walter and Kitty earn each others respect and love?
Also in the cast are Toby Jones as Waddington, the deputy commissioner; Diana Rigg as the Mother Superior of the orphanage.
Based on the novel by W. Somerset Maugham. Directed by John Curran.
Run time: 2 hour, 5 minute
Rated PG-13.
My personal rating: B+
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