金刚女主角加盟中美合拍爱情片面纱
吉蒂为了逃离20年代伦敦浮华却又空虚的社交圈,也为了防止自己变成一位老姑娘,接受了沉默寡言的医生沃特-费恩的求婚。
费恩在把吉蒂带到上海后,便迅速地投入到了他的细菌学研究中去。孤独的吉蒂和迷人的已婚男子查理-唐森发生了婚外情,当费恩发现时,他羞恨交加。为了报复,也为了重整自己的生活,费恩决定孤注一掷,带着吉蒂远走霍乱肆虐的偏远城镇。沃特从一尘不染的研究室走向了瘟疫流行的最前线,他慢慢地协助控制了当地的疫情。吉蒂则开始在一家由法国修女住持的修道院兼医院中做义工,并逐渐找回了生活的勇气和意义。沃特和吉蒂终于可以互相敞开心扉,但就在他们日渐亲密的同时,沃特染上了霍乱。沃特的生死决定了他们新近迸发出来的激情能否转化为永恒的爱情……
Based on the classic novel by W. Somerset Maugham, "The Painted Veil" is a love story set in the 1920s that tells the story of a young English couple, Walter, a middle class doctor and Kitty, an upper-class woman, who get married for the wrong reasons and relocate to Shanghai, where she falls in love with someone else. When he uncovers her infidelity, in an act of vengeance, he accepts a job in a remote village in China ravaged by a deadly epidemic, and takes her along. Their journey brings meaning to their relationship and gives them purpose in one of the most remote and beautiful places on earth.
注释:
1. W. Somerset Maugham:毛姆,1874年1月25日生于巴黎,中学毕业后在德国海德堡大学肄业。1892年至1897年在伦敦学医,并取得外科医师资格。
2. middle class:中产阶级
3. upper-class:上流社会
4. infidelity:n. 失真
5. vengeance:n. 复仇,报仇
6. epidemic:n. 流行病,瘟疫