Film director known for directing The Painted Veil and Stone.

Directed film adaptations including The Painted Veil; has worked with actors Naomi Watts, Edward Norton and Robert De Niro.

DeBaser hosts a small set of reviews for director John Curran, focused on two of his dramas: The Painted Veil and Stone. Reviews praise performances and locations in The Painted Veil while criticizing Stone's screenplay and pacing. Overall reception in these reviews is mixed.

For:Film enthusiasts interested in character-driven dramas and performance-focused cinema.

 Naomi Watts, thank heavens, doesn’t pretend to be Garbo, but does her best to perfectly construct the character of Kitty: a British bourgeois woman caught in the whirlwind of her frivolities, for whom the encounter with the most blatant poverty serves as a warning for inner redemption.

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 Curran relies too much on the available actors. And he is wrong...

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