If you loved The Painted Veil, try We Don't Live Here Anymore
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. We Don't Live Here Anymore has roughly 10.7× fewer votes than The Painted Veil — it's a deeper cut, not a mainstream recommendation. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
What they share
Both films are directed by John Curran, and they both carry the bittersweet, tender mood tags, and they sit in Drama / Romance territory. If that's the register that drew you to The Painted Veil, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
What We Don't Live Here Anymore is
Here's a film that asks what happens when literary novelists get bored. Two couples in upstate New York swap partners and then try to sort through the emotional fallout. It is the kind of movie where affairs are somehow both devastating and mundane.
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