Movies Like This? - The Painted Veil (2007) Discussion

[–] OliviaV 16 years ago

Pride and Prejudice?
The English Patient
Malèna(italian film but if you haven't seen it, it is very very good..and sad)
La Vita è bella
umm i know some more but can't think of them right now so i will get back to you...you have probably seen The notebook?

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[–] disconinja 16 years ago

I have seen The Notebook but none of the others, I'll look into them. Thanks a lot! :)

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[–] astrazen11 16 years ago

Get Pride and Prejudice (1995). It's fantastic! :)

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[–] mzajac-626-638087 9 years ago

Agreed!

The more recent version with Keira Knightley is apocryphal!

Get the version with Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle.

Of course, be sure to read the book first!

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[–] reduct101 15 years ago

Try La Vita é Bella next!!! Loved that film and can't recommend it highly enough. It's different to this movie, in that it is highly sentimental and quite manipulative, but it's a wonderful experience, despite it being almost too much to bear at times. I remember people around me in the cinema (and myself included) making all sorts of alarming choking sounds at various points in the story. However, you spend most of the first half laughing your head off. It's completely captivating.

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[–] emmamaria 15 years ago

"The White Countess"
"The English Patient" (someone already suggested it, but it happens to be my favourite movie of all time)
"Love in the Time of Cholera"
"Sense and Sensibility"
"The Remains of the Day" (I like Ishiguro, ok!)
"A River Runs Through It"
"Memoirs of a Geisha"
"Cold Mountain".....(movie is not my favourite, but the novel is beautiful beyond words)
"A Room with a View"

Many of these are based on novels and are all as good as the originals...hope you like some/all of them if you get a chance to check them out!

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[–] rwilliams861 15 years ago

The new version of "Persuasion" is pretty good.... I love Jane Austen, oh and I also really like "Jane Eyre" there are a couple versions.....good story

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[–] riojasjudy 15 years ago

omg yes yes yes! love the new persuasion. very hot.

"woodstock"

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[–] sweavers 15 years ago

Merchant Ivory Titles...... 'Before The Rains' springs to mind

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[–] zurichpoet 15 years ago

Of Human Bondage with Bette Davis is aces!

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[–] LLyan3 15 years ago

Brideshead Revisited. Matthew Goode is fantastic in it.

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[–] movieSNOB1 15 years ago

I HATED that movie.

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[–] mOviegOer16 15 years ago

which one? Pride & Prejudice? Cuz I hated it too....sooo boring. Well the BBC version is okay...(I guess)...but the one with Keira Knightley omg someone shoot me! I really hated every movie that I have seen with her in it. And its weird because I don't necessarily dislike HER...but I just can't enjoy her as an actress! (Okay went off on a tangent here I know LoL).

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[–] movieSNOB1 15 years ago

I hated Brideshead Revisited! But I agree about Keira Nightly- I don't like to watch her act. Other than the first Pirates of the Carribean, there is something off-putting about her to me.

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[–] alicatorr-1 15 years ago

I like Keira Knightley when I see her in interviewa... but her acting persona can be a little stiff...

"Welease Wonald!"

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[–] vicky_lc2001-1 10 years ago

Knightly played Lizzy as if she were Kitty!

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[–] fortunate1 15 years ago

The more I thought about it the more I realised that "period piece" could mean one of a thousand things. I was prompted in part because of my initial shock at the recommendation for Jane Austen, who lived close to 150 years before the time that this film is set. I wonder if "costume drama" might not be a better descriptor in this case (inferring from the recommends that that's really what the OP's after, which I know is dangerous.) After all, "Birth of a Nation" ,"It Happened One Night", "Pillow Talk" and "A Hard Day's Night" are all in their way "period pieces." Maybe disconinja will return and tell us more.

Anyway, not wanting to come across as too obtuse, I would recommend Ang Lee's "Lust, Caution" and Wong Kar-Wai's "In the Mood for Love." The latter, especially, is a real treat for the eye and the heart - a period piece to be sure but not very much like "Pride & Prejudice" I'm afraid.

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[–] twikiwitch 10 years ago

Reminded me of "Out of Africa" in theme, tone, exotic setting, period.

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[–] dellascott2004 9 years ago

The Sheltering Sky. I normally don't like Debra Winger that much, but I liked this very much.

That Eye the Sky. This is an obscure Australian film, quite hard to find, about a whole family rather than a couple, but unforgettable.

"I didn't betray you--I simply put a stop to you."

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[–] mzajac-626-638087 9 years ago

Let me add Howards End, with Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson to the many fine suggestions here.

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[–] vince-volaju 8 years ago

Not exactly 'like this'is the classic 1937 "The Good Earth". It is a sweeping saga about the relationship of a rural Chinese couple and how changes affect their family, the land around them, the politics, etc. It's the kind of classic film which I guarantee will make a grown man weep.😢 Unlike The Painted Veil, which best aspect was the scenery.😉

BTW, I'm a bit of a fan of Alexandre Desplat. In The Painted Veil soundtrack, what is the name of the jazzy instrumental tune (clarinet &/or sax) which is playing when Kitty meets her hub over at Waddington's house, when W & his Chinese girl are getting stoned?

This tune was also used (and again, uncredited) in the ST for Oliver Stone's 'Nixon'. I've a friend who's been trying to find out for years! It sounds a bit like a Sidney Bechet tune but it's unfamiliar to me.

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[–] 4thlake 8 years ago

Enchanted April
The Razor's Edge
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness

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